infix/doc/goals.md

Infix Goals
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The founding ideas that drive Infix are:

 - Use Buildroot, it is:
   - High quality, track their LTS releases whenever possible
   - Well maintained and responsive community
   - Easy to use (c.f. Yocto or roll-your-own)
   - Well curated Open Source components
   - Take active part in Buildroot to secure investment in key components
 - Extend with other Open Source components for system monitoring,
   networking, etc.  With the intent of upstreaming them to become parts
   of Buildroot proper
 - Rely on standards, i.e., use NETCONF and YANG
 - When standards are not enough create models that fit well with Linux
   and chosen Open Source components
 - Keep as much as possible Open Source, no need to maintain stuff that
   is not core business
 - Secure boot by default
 - Use RAUC for upgrades, it works
 - Serve as a stand-alone(!) base for other projects that use Infix as
   their Buildroot external -- this makes Infix a great layer for where
   to publish used Open Source components and patches used in customer
   projects

**Note:** projects derived from Infix (as a Buildroot external) will be
  able to seamlessly extend the CLI with other models.

Short Term
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  - Integrate Clixon and some well-chosen IETF/IEEE YANG models
    (ietf-system, ietf-interfaces/ip)
  - Get the (from YANG) automatically generated CLI working similar to
    Cisco, HP ProCurve, and other well-known command line interfaces,
	with a focus on usability
  - First baseline release, from Buildroot 2023.02 (LTS) -> v23.6.0


Medium Term
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  - First Web interface built on top of RESTCONF API
  - Static routing, firewalling, and other advanced YANG models
  - OSPF YANG model integrated with Frr as backend
  - Second release -> v23.10.0


Long Term
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  - Not determined.
  - Third release -> v24.6.0