[Nml-wg] Informational Doc on translating NM-WG - NML

[Freek Dijkstra]

Jeroen van der Ham wrote:

> [...] we worked on translating between the format the DICE
> IDC uses and NDL. I've written a report on this, detailling the
> translation and highlighting some issues that we encountered while
> implementing the translation.
> 
> The document can be found
> at:http://staff.science.uva.nl/~vdham/research/publications/DCN-NDL-Translation.pdf
> 
> I would like to submit this to the OGF as an informational document. I
> can do this personally, or from the NML WG. I would prefer the latter,
> does anyone disagree?

I think this is a useful contribution. I have no strong preference where
it is published, but since the main audience is authors of the NML
schema, I would endorse that it is uploaded somewhere to the NML site.
Publication as NML-WG document would be a straightforward way to
accomplish that.

In fact, I do encourage more of these contributions! For example, if the
revised UNIS schema made by Internet2 is not published elsewhere (e.g.
in the NM-WG or NMC-WG), I would say that the NML-WG is a good place for
that.

The only condition I would like to see is that there should be no
confusion on the status of these kind of documents. A naive reader
should not mistake it for "the" NML schema. In this particular case, I
don't see that risk, as it is an "informational" document and does not
define a schema itself.

Regards,
Freek