To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln (which you admittedly don’t often get to do in a technology blog), “God must have loved standards because he made so many of them.”
That sentiment is nowhere more evident than in the field of software-defined networking, a field in which recent standards news has been flying with the speed of software decoupled from hardware hurtling across Ethernet. The question is, if you’re interested in SDN, which standard should you be paying the closest attention to? Hint: the one that’s going to keep customers’ best interests in mind – not the vendors’.
