Developing software that deal with networks is harder than it should. Very often, each vendor develops an entire stack that works exclusively with its own hardware and software. There exist many libraries and web apps for networking, but it is very hard to make them interoperable, that is, making them talk and understand one another with minimum effort. Instead of creating an ecosystem, we have been creating silos that hardly talk to each other. By defining common data structures we can allow developers to focus on their goals instead of having to struggle with the differences of each vendor, firmware, routing protocol or community. Moreover, we will lay the groundwork for an ecosystem to grow organically: once the standard JSON structures are defined and adopted it will be easier to write systems that work together, instead of creating silos.

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