Hello netdevers,

Based on discussions at netdev 0x13, including one side meeting, a working group is being created to continue discussion and work on common problems in programmable protocol processing. The name of this working group is "Common Programmable Protocol Processing Objective" or c3po for short.

Working groups are new concept to netdevconf. The idea is that a "netdevconf working group" is composed of an ad hoc group of people that come together for a common purpose to address a problem or need. Working groups are appropriate to solve problems across solutions that that require common APIs, programming models, architectures, etc. There is no official membership in a working group, anyone interested in the topic may subscribe to the email list. Working groups are intended to be light weight with a flow that is defined by the participants. The one bit of formality is to have a stated objective for the working group.

The draft objective of c3po-wg is to define an architecture and interfaces for programmable protocol processing. Some sort of "specification" is potentially the output of the workign group that defines a common model for programmable protocol processing in different devices across various OSes, hardware, switches, NICs, etc.

The mailing list for c3po is c3po-wg@netdevconf.org. Please visit https://lists.netdevconf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/c3po-wg to join the list.

Thanks, Tom