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Topology API Use Cases
draft-amante-i2rs-topology-use-cases-00

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Expired".
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Authors Shane Amante , Jan Medved , Stefano Previdi , Thomas Nadeau
Last updated 2013-08-18 (Latest revision 2013-02-14)
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Abstract

This document describes use cases for gathering routing, forwarding and policy information, (hereafter referred to as topology information), about the network. It describes several applications that need to view the topology of the underlying physical or logical network. This document further demonstrates a need for a "Topology Manager" and related functions that collects topology data from network elements and other data sources, coalesces the collected data into a coherent view of the overall network topology, and normalizes the network topology view for use by clients -- namely, applications that consume topology information.

Authors

Shane Amante
Jan Medved
Stefano Previdi
Thomas Nadeau

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