Document draft protocol between EntGENI FlowVisor and PlanetLab clearinghouse

[hdempsey@bbn.com]

Slides 47 and 48 of the ​Enterprise GENI presentation at the Cluster B integration meeting on Feb 13, 2009 outline a simplified Enterprise GENI Aggregate Manager API to PlanetLab clearinghouse. PlanetLab later released a modified version of the GENI wrapper code to support this idea called ​GENILight.

Please update this ticket with pointers to final API documentation for the API between the PlanetLab clearinghouse (GENI wrapper) and the Enterprise GENI Aggregate Manager (FlowVisor). Please include pointers to the versions or tags of PlanetLab and Enterprise GENI code that support all (or part) of this API (e.g. all OpenFlow versions after x.y support this API). Please list any "exceptions" to the GENI system requirements for the AM/Clearinghouse interface required by this solution.

See also ticket #141

[Srini Seetharaman]

The FlowVisor does not speak directly to the PL Clearinghouse. The E-GENI Aggregate manager handles necessary communication between those two entities. For more information, see ​E-GENI Wiki page

[hdempsey@bbn.com]

Please include SPECIFIC pointers to the Planetlab and EntGENI releases/tags that support this API and list any known exceptions to the GENI system requirements, as originally requested.

[hdempsey@bbn.com]

AM interface is documented in #144.

[hdempsey@bbn.com]

This ticket combined with ticket 144 include pointers to wiki pages with the PlanetLab anbd EntGENI source code that was used to document this "draft" interface, as well as some documentation. License text in source files is being reviewed.