perfsonar development work

[Aaron Brown <>]

An approach jeff suggested was to allow people to define 'keyword' 
elements in the interfaces. These elements would contain strings that 
you could search on. This could then be used for things like project 
names and the like, and would be allow people to easily define their 
own, and since it's a keyword, it's expected to be something abstract to 
search on instead of topological or test description information.

         <nmwgt:interface>
              ... interface description ...
             <nmwgt:keyword type="project">IN2P3</nmwgt:keyword>
             <nmwgt:keyword>Internet2</nmwgt:keyword>
         </nmwgt:interface>

What do people think about that?

Cheers,
Aaron

Joe Metzger wrote:
> Szymon & Loukik,
> I have been looking at this and I have realized that the
> URN's are not quite as flexible as I thought.  There is a domain field
> in the URNs, but it should probably not be overloaded to include project
> information.
>
> So, I have come to the conclusion that we do need an extension to handle
> this capability.
>
> --Joe
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 23, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Szymon Trocha wrote:
>
> > Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> > > Joe Metzger wrote:
> > > > Loukik,
> > > > I don't think we need this.  We have already discussed putting URN's
> > > > into the protocol. These URN's contain a domain field. So, I think 
> > > > we should
> > > > just implement the approach that has already been discussed, 
> > > > instead of
> > > > inventing a new one.
> > > > Or, does this new proposal support some capability that URN's don't 
> > > > support?
> > > Hi Joe,
> > > I might have missed this point. URN is a great idea and I am fine 
> > > with using that approach. However, I am not clear where such a URN 
> > > will fit within the store file and the protocol and how it will help 
> > > us achieve the objectives discussed in Zagreb and detailed for 
> > > implementation below.
> > > Can you please explain with some examples?
> >
> > Hi Loukik,
> >
> > How is this specification progressing?
> > Joe - can you give us some examples of using URNs?
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Szymon Trocha
> >
> > Poznan Supercomputing & Ntw. Center ::: NETWORK OPERATION CENTER
> > Tel. (+48 61) 8582022
> > http://noc.man.poznan.pl  ::: http://noc.pionier.gov.pl