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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014-2015 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.onosproject.iptopology.api.device;
+
+import org.onosproject.iptopology.api.DeviceTed;
+import org.onosproject.iptopology.api.IpDevice;
+import org.onosproject.iptopology.api.IpDeviceIdentifier;
+import org.onosproject.net.Description;
+
+
+import java.net.URI;
+
+/**
+ * Carrier of immutable information about an ip device.
+ */
+public interface IpDeviceDescription extends Description {
+
+    /**
+     * Protocol/provider specific URI that can be used to encode the identity
+     * information required to communicate with the ip device externally, e.g.
+     * datapath ID.
+     *
+     * @return provider specific URI for the ip device
+     */
+    URI deviceURI();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the type of the ip device. For ex: Psuedo or actual
+     *
+     * @return type of the device
+     */
+    IpDevice.Type type();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the device identifier details.
+     *
+     * @return identifier of the device
+     */
+    IpDeviceIdentifier deviceIdentifier();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the traffic engineering parameters of the device.
+     *
+     * @return traffic engineering parameters of the device
+     */
+    DeviceTed deviceTed();
+
+}