OpenFlow Meeting Notes 7-28-2009

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Agenda:

Reference Implementation, Specification and Test Suite

• OpenFlow 0.9 Released. Wohoo!
  • Nox time table
  • Other switches time table
• Feedback on 0.9 Release Process
  • Clear two phases: one for feature suggestions, second for design
  • Decision on features once they are designed
  • Possibly implement features before making the final decision
  • Fixed window for release
• Process and time table for 1.0 release
  • What are current major features under consideration
    • Topology Discovery
    • Port groups
    • QoS
  • When?
• Roadmap Beyond 1.0
  • What are most requested features?

Vendor Implementation Updates

• HP
• NEC
• Arista
• Juniper
• Cisco
• Toroki
• OpenWRT (Julius)
• Broadcom (Dan)

Deployments and Projects

• Stanford deployment update (Masa/Srini)
• Internet2

Other

• Attributions

Last Week's Action Items

* Clarify Stats extension is purely reference implementation, not a spec feature (Mikio)

• Emergency flow cache
  • Missing in spec (Brandon)
  • Document how to view emergency flow cache (DavidE)
  • Specify correct timer behavior in spec (Brandon)
  • Add logic to emergency flow cache to reject entries with timer (Mikio)

* Test suite - find bug that Nicira found on real HW (Tatusya) * Git 101, talk (Justin)

• Investigate datapath ID for virtual switch instances (Guido/Martin)
• Spec Clarification, top 4 bits of VLAN tag for untagged packet (Dan)