[FROG] [dev] FRRouting to leverage AI/ML networking synergies

[Donatas Abraitis]

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On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:40 PM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:15 AM David 'equinox' Lamparter
> <equinox at diac24.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > as you are likely well aware, recent developments in Artificial
> > Intelligence and Machine Learning have been consistently performing one
> > quantum leap after another.
> >
> > To leverage the new possibilities and avenues enabled by these
> > developments, and not get left behind, we must join up and integrate
> > these new technologies as soon as possible.
> >
> > I would therefore like to present our plans for the immediate future:
> >
> > - all SPF calculation and BGP best-path decision logic is to be replaced
> >   by a GNN (Graph Neural Network).  In preparation of this, significant
> >   effort has been made to train such a network to produce results
> >   exceeding those provided by the previous hard-coded logic.
> >
> > - all configuration interfacing is to be performed by Microsoft's Sydney
> >   LLM (Large Language Model) chatbot.  Not only is this the obvious
> >   choice of vendor considering our SONiC integration, but we also
> >   believe Sydney to be superior in its capability to handle typical
> >   network engineers' outbursts of swearing and curses.  In fact, we are
> >   confident that future networks may be configured by simply swearing at
> >   the hardware until it works.
> >
> > - monitoring and other OAM functions will be handled by clippy, as
> >   provided in the original version of Office 97.  The rationale for this
> >   is to ease the production of the appropriate curses necessary to
> >   affect the configuration changes needed to fix the outage at hand.
> >
> > We understand some of you may be concerned about the reliability and
> > availability of these new AIs.  As an open source project, we will
> > obviously not try to confine you to the use of our provided AIs.  In
> > fact, we will try our best to enable you to train up your own AI
> > according to the needs of your particular network!  (Cloud compute
> > credits not included.)
> >
> >
> > I am happy to invite you all to join our path to this bright future,
> >
> >
> > -equi
> >
> >
> > P.S.: Please note that, despite the obvious connection, YANG schemas and
> > configuration data exceed the limits of swearing we were able to train
> > Sydney for.  I am unsure we will be able to achieve this particular
> > feat, but it's not quite time to give up just yet.
> >
>
> I do hope that this announcement is date specific - - - - if not H toledo
> Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
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Donatas
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