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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Hi Aaron, interesting …making routers do what you intend…hmmm… Sounds like SDN </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546A'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> …how does what you are doing differ from the intent-based-controller driven sdn concepts that I hear so much about these days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>BTW, I did the survey.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>- Aaron<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Aaron Gember-Jacobson<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 7, 2018 8:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Study on configuration change practices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>We are a team of networking researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Colgate University investigating methods for automatically synthesizing router configurations from high-level requirements (or intents). To guide our research, we seek to better understand the configuration change practices used in production networks.<br><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>We would appreciate if you could take 3 minutes to complete our brief, </span>anonymous survey: <a href="https://colgate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3ee26xayy70jP3D">https://colgate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3ee26xayy70jP3D</a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>To learn more about our research, visit </span><a href="http://aaron.gember-jacobson.com/research/repair" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://aaron.gember-jacobson.com/research/repair</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>Thanks,<br>Aaron Gember-Jacobson</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i>Assistant Professor of Computer Science</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i>Colgate University</i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>