Subject: [Anima] draft dealing with generic features of ASA/AF

From: "PELOSO, PIERRE (PIERRE)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:46:44 +0000

Hi Anima folks,

This email < intends > to point at a freshly written draft dealing with autonomic functions and ASAs :
draft-peloso-anima-autonomic-function-00<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-peloso-anima-autonomic-function-00.html>

This draft addresses two sorts of extensions:

*         Some immediate ones that fills holes in-between the current anima works (e.g. what an ASA declares to others when bootstrapping [its Manifest] and the format of the instructions he needs in order to startup [its mandate], and which is the ASA life-cycle sequence)

*         Some that need not being solved right now, but better kept in sight to extend the applicability of current anima works (e.g. operator controlled and dynamic deployment of autonomic solutions).

Best regards,

Pierre and Laurent

P.S.
As a side effect of the draft, we have intently changed in its text Autonomic Service Agent into Autonomic Function Agent, as the deeper we were sorting our thoughts around autonomic functions the less we were comfortable with the ASA wording. This is a mere detail, and I have no strong opinion on this naming, this was just a way to let everyone think around what the duties of an ASA/AFA are ?