diff --git a/apps/sdnip/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/sdnip/config/SdnIpConfigurationService.java b/apps/sdnip/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/sdnip/config/SdnIpConfigurationService.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.onlab.onos.sdnip.config;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.onlab.packet.IpAddress;
+
+/**
+ * Provides information about the layer 3 properties of the network.
+ * This is based on IP addresses configured on ports in the network.
+ */
+public interface SdnIpConfigurationService {
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the list of BGP speakers inside the SDN network.
+     *
+     * @return the map of BGP speaker names to BGP speaker objects
+     */
+    public Map<String, BgpSpeaker> getBgpSpeakers();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the list of configured BGP peers.
+     *
+     * @return the map from peer IP address to BgpPeer object
+     */
+    public Map<IpAddress, BgpPeer> getBgpPeers();
+
+}