[ofiwg] Slides for compliance and interoperability discussion

[Ryan, Jim]

Paul, I think this note as well as your original presentation and discussion have been extremely helpful in clarifying the issues, and I think remarkably quickly. I don't think we have any firm conclusions yet, but, as I said at the last meeting, you did a huge service for all of us by trying to be clear about what was likely a "care" and a "don't care", WRT C&I.

I think I politely and gently disagree there are any expectations the OFA may have of the OFI, again, WRT C&I. Assuming you meant to suggest that. I think the only expectation is the interop program that exists for the OFA, and the C&I program that's run in conjunction with the IBTA would be considered as a source for possible extensions or adaption to the TBD needs of the OFI. You've started that analysis very nicely and we need to hear from Rupert, I think, before reaching any clear conclusions.

Similarly, I think it would be a "good" outcome if OFS could be expanded to embrace the OFI, but I wouldn't begin to push for any sort of force fit.

Hope this helps and thanks, again, for the remarkable you're doing here

Regards, Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: ofiwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofiwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Paul Grun
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 3:02 PM
To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
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Subject: Re: [ofiwg] Slides for compliance and interoperability discussion

I need to get on the stick and publish the meeting minutes.  This was intended mainly as an information gathering meeting to provide input back to the OFA to help guide its thinking on compliance and interoperability w.r.t. OFI.  The over-arching question, for which there is as yet no specific answer is; "Is there interest in the industry in a compliance and interoperability service provided by the OFA?" where 'industry' is taken to mean all stakeholders including potential suppliers of OFI-based products and consumers of network services (both application-level consumers of OFI-based network services and middleware providers).

The key point of the presentation was to try to define the scope of the questions being asked and to put some reasonable bounds around the discussion in order to keep it an effective discussion.  To that end we agreed, I think, that the OFA has no overarching interest in either compliance or interoperability at the application or middleware levels, but does have an interest in compliance at the middleware/provider interface and possibly an interest in interoperability at the provider layer.  We further agreed, I think, that the OFA does not have an interest in interoperability in 'on the wire' protocols at the hardware level, believing that that is the purview of other standards bodies, (even though correct operation of the consumers/providers depends on correct operation at the wire level).

At the end of the day, the OFA needs to decide if it believes there is demand in the industry for whatever compliance and interoperability validation testing services it might offer.

Regards,
-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) [mailto:jsquyres at cisco.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 5:07 AM
To: Paul Grun
Cc: ofiwg at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofiwg] Slides for compliance and interoperability discussion

Paul --

What was the result of this discussion?


On Nov 25, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Paul Grun <grun at cray.com> wrote:

> If possible, I would like to discuss these at today's OFI WG meeting.
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