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Toned down assumption that ASAs are multi-threaded
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becarpenter committed Dec 30, 2017
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<?rfc compact="yes"?>

<rfc ipr="trust200902" docName="draft-ietf-anima-reference-model-05" category="info">
<rfc ipr="trust200902" docName="draft-ietf-anima-reference-model-06" category="info">
<front>
<title abbrev="AN Reference Model">A Reference Model for Autonomic Networking</title>

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</address>
</author>

<date day="19" month="October" year="2017"/>
<date day="1" month="January" year="2018"/>
<area>Operations and Management</area>
<workgroup>ANIMA</workgroup>
<abstract>
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interaction with other ASAs via the GRASP protocol <xref target="I-D.ietf-anima-grasp"/> or otherwise.
Of course it also interacts with the specific targets of its function, using
any suitable mechanism.
Unless its function is very simple, the ASA will need to be multi-threaded so that
it can handle overlapping asynchronous operations. It may therefore be a quite
Unless its function is very simple, the ASA will need to handle overlapping asynchronous operations. It may therefore be a quite
complex piece of software in its own right, forming part of the application layer
above the ANI. </t>

<t>Thus we can distinguish at least three classes of ASAs:
<list style="symbols">
<t>Simple ASAs with a small footprint that could run anywhere.</t>
<t>Complex, multi-threaded ASAs that have a significant resource requirement and will only
<t>Complex, possibly multi-threaded ASAs that have a significant resource requirement and will only
run on selected nodes.</t>
<t>A few 'infrastructure ASAs' that use basic ANI features in support of the ANI itself,
which must run in all autonomic nodes.
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