[Nml-wg] Example topology of Automated GOLE

[Freek Dijkstra]

Roman Łapacz wrote:

> I'm sending you my first try of mapping owl topology desc into nml.
> Please, treat this as a start point for further discussion in order to
> get the final proposal for the NSI team.

Hi Roman,

I have three main comments for now.

1. You use the nml "next" relation to signify a network connections. The
"next" relation is already in use to describe something else: the order
in XML lists (as such it is merely a syntactic construct, instead of an
actual connection/relation between network elements). This was proposed
in Salt Lake City last year, and agreed upon by a small margin.

2. You seem to define network ports and create relations between them to
define a network topology. The NML method is instead to define the
links, and create relations between them to define a network topology.
You can either connect two links using a port, or connect them directly
together (which is slightly shorter to describe circuits through a network).

3. As Jeroen mentioned, I would refer to vCard for defining contacts,
and XML (or OWL) schemas are great in combining multiple schemas in one
document.

Freek