perfsonar development work

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Maxim and Jeff;

For clarification, could one (or perhaps both) of you propose a new way
forward.  Something small and simple is good enough to kick this
discussion off.

-jason

>>  Hello ( mostly schema and protocol people),
>> While working on psPS framework API I found that according to the
>> current schema
>> definition its very inconvenient to send select:parameter with some
>> time range select values.
>> For some reasons there is a time schema but there is no support for
>> time elements in
>> the select parameter.   So, people basically using something like
>> <parameter name="startTime">... instead of normal time element. Its
>> very strange to have  several ways to treat such thing as time. As
>> the simplest approach and may be the easiest step I would suggest to
>> allow current time   element as subelement of parameter. Of course I
>> can support it for my service ( pinger MA)
>> at any time but this feature will benefit every other service as well.
>
> I am planning to support nmtime objects as sub-elements of parameter
> elements for the owamp/bwctl (perfSONOBOUY) MA. (I have been unhappy
> with the current treatment of time - and have been for a while. Search
> the archives for details.)
>
> I agree that if all services were using the nmtime element, then an
> implementation that understood how to decode the nmtime element could
> be shared across multiple services.
>
> Of course, this would represent a major protocol change for any
> existing services and it would therefore need a fair amount of time to
> make its way into already deployed services.
>
> Lets at least make sure that you and I are implementing this using the
> same schema (syntax) - then perhaps we can convince other services to
> adopt it in the future to make coding clients and servers easier with
> regard to this often used concept.
>
> jeff
>


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