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Hi, Aaron,
Aaron Falk wrote:
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> Regarding an RG charter, I'm not asserting that terms like 'slice' and
> 'RSpec' should be included in the charter but I think there is a growing
> community around a conceptual model that includes establishing virtual
> environments that include link, computation, measurement, storage, and
> other resources. This is clearly more general than Joe's scope of only
> discussing the communications elements. However, IMO, this broader
> scope is a useful area for collaboration and is appropriate for an RG.
> I'd be interested in hearing whether others agree. If so, perhaps there
> needs to be a name change for the RG ("Virtual Testbeds", maybe?)...
It's interesting to talk about virtualizing everything at once. We have
fairly well-defined terms for talking about OS virtualization, though -
PlanetLab co-opted the term slice for that a long time ago, and it's not
clear that GENI's redefinition of the term will change that.
Regardless, OS stuff is somewhat outside the scope of the I in IRTF.
IMO, that overlaps more where the Grid forum or various cloud computing
forums sit. Testbeds are useful important, but IMO many such issues
could easily fit under the IETF operations area. The Internet research
here, AFAICT, is in network virtualization, which is where I thought
this group was headed. I could be wrong, of course.
Joe
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