[Nml-wg] About modelisation of the network description

[Evangelos Chaniotakis]

Aaron Brown wrote:
> So, if one is creating a specific view, why is it being limited to a 
> view of a single administrative network? Couldn't I create a 'view' of 
> the set of pinger measurement points where the set of nodes spanned 
> across a large number of administrative domains? I think the view 
> concept is really the same as the 'group' element that we discussed at 
> OGF. It's basically a grouping of various network elements that have 
> some relation. Defining what this relation is in a view seems to 
> depend on the context. Say a user requests all the views that i've 
> defined. How does it know which one to select? i.e. How do we assign 
> meaning to this arbitrary grouping of elements. Once we've defined on 
> how to assign meaning to these groupings, I think the difference 
> between a group and a view goes away. I.e. how is "i know what group X 
> means" different than "i know what view X means"?
>
Actually that's a very good point.