Yes, Contrail will provide a distributed system. And yes, Contrail will provide a high-level language to describe what you want in the network ... we're fully aware of the burden of maintaining code. This won't be Python or C code :-)
Yes, it will fly, provided Contrail's customers can find the right technical talent to write the proper code to send into their compiler.
I thought it was hard enough (exceedingly hard...) to find the right technical talent to write the software that ran all the routing protocols.
But Contrail's reply to that, I suspect, is to point out the routing protocol software keeps running at a lower level while their software (after having compiled the customer's code) runs at a higher level? I'd love to hear their reply to this proposal.
Contrail has a really interesting proposal, being a compiler for the SDN rather than just a broker that lets apps learn about the network. The latter would be more like a gateway, where the compiler sounds more like the brains of the operation.
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