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

[Jason Zurawski]

Agree that this is the appropriate venue and approach (re: informational).

Thanks;

-jason

>> [...] 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