perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Roman Lapacz wrote:
> > You didn't mention loss earlier, but yes this should be there too.   
> > I will add it.
>
> I just took a look at an example of iperf output :)
>
> > I have no problem adding the 'units' fields, but lets let everyone  
> > weigh in.
>
> OK. Verena, Jeff what's your opinions on this?

I would prefer not specifying units in the schema. I don't see any  
reason not to require that the units be something specific when  
encoding the data in the schema. But, I'm sure reasonable people might  
disagree with me on this one. (For example, when Verena and I worked  
on the OWD schema, we decided delays would be in seconds. No units.)

If there is some reason different units are useful, like in the case  
with sharing SNMP data, then we should do it. (i.e. lots of existing  
data is already collected and there is no clear winner as to what  
people are using. We don't want to make 'services' transform the data  
unless necessary for performance reasons.) I don't personally think  
that is the case here.

jeff