perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Hi Jeff and Roman,

The change specs have been updated according to your suggestions. I have 
removed the inheritance bit (its a nice-to-have rather than a must-have, 
better to leave it out for now).

Loukik



Roman Lapacz wrote:
> Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> > Hi Loukik,
> >
> > I'm sorry, but I do have a problem with the way you put the keyword 
> > parameter in here.
> >
> > This is not what I understood from the previous interaction. I 
> > thought you were going to use the parameters from the metadata, not 
> > modify the topology elements to add a parameters block in. (I thought 
> > the main point of using parameters was that schema definitions would 
> > not have to change. The way you have done this would modify the 
> > parsing in the Java implementation as well...) If we are actually 
> > going to modify schema, I would advocate a full fledged element for 
> > this functionality - I do not think an amorphous parameters block is 
> > a good idea 'inside' the topology schema elements. That will make 
> > several other things we need to do more difficult 
> > (summarization/topology sharing/etc...).
> >
> > Also - just a comment based on reading this - I think adding this 
> > parameter into the top of your store file is likely a mistake. I 
> > don't have a strong opinion about it since the store file is internal 
> > to your services and does not impact protocol or interoperability. 
> > But, you should think about this because I think it will present some 
> > special case situations that will likely make ongoing maintenance of 
> > those services more difficult. (i.e. are all parameters from this 
> > location subject to this 'inheritance' to internal param blocks? 
> > There are parameters at different levels of the schema, which ones 
> > does this inheritance apply to?)
>
> I agree with Jeff. My understanding of using new parameter 'keyword' 
> is that it will be used like other parameters in metadata block:
>
>
>  <nmwg:metadata id="meta1">
>      <netutil:subject id="subj1">
>          <nmwgt:interface>
>              <!-- ... some interface elements -->
>          </nmwgt:interface>
>       </netutil:subject>
>       
> <nmwg:eventType>http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/characteristic/utilization/2.0</nmwg:eventType> 
>
>       <nmwg:parameters>
>           <nmwg:parameter name="keyword" 
> type="project">http://geant2.net</nmwg:parameter>
>       </nmwg:parameters>
>  </nmwg:metadata>
>
>
>
> I also suggest to use this parameter only inside metadata block.
>
>
> Roman
>
>
>
>
> > jeff
> >
> > On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > In attachments you can find word documents that detail all the 
> > > changes expected from RRD MA and SQL MA for release 3.1. Please note 
> > > that there is a section on syslog that is not complete and should be 
> > > filled with a reference to another document at some point in time in 
> > > the future.
> > >
> > > The focus is on the introduction of the new fields (keyword 
> > > parameters) as well as e2emon sync support from SQL MA.
> > >
> > > The document is of interest to the following
> > >
> > > Roman, Szymon - implementation
> > > Nina et. al, David et. al, - visualisation tool implementation
> > > Michalis et. al. - Web admin changes and Test scripts update
> > > Matthias and Mark - e2emon sync spec
> > >
> > > The next step is for the document to be reviewed and if there aren't 
> > > any comments, necessary changes to be undertaken including upgrade 
> > > of documentation (interface spec). Comments are welcome on these 
> > > documents until 10th of June 2008 after which changes will have to 
> > > be moderated.
> > >
> > > If you have any questions, let me know.
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> > > <SQL MA change specification for 3.1 release.doc><RRD MA change 
> > > specification for 3.1 release.doc>


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