[Nsi-wg] Fwd: NSI naming --

[John Vollbrecht]

I am forwarding this conversation and will forward some other related  
ones to the NSI and NML groups.  --

Note that I included the original doc in the message below.  - John

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Freek Dijkstra <fdijkstr at science.uva.nl>
> Date: May 7, 2009 10:21:51 AM GMT-04:00
> To: John Vollbrecht <jrv at internet2.edu>
> Cc: Martin Swany <swany at cis.udel.edu>,  Jeroen van der Ham <vdham at science.uva.nl 
> >, Aaron Brown <aaron at internet2.edu>, Jeff Boote  
> <boote at internet2.edu>,  Andrew Lake <alake at internet2.edu>
> Subject: Re: NSI naming
>
> John Vollbrecht wrote:
>
>> Attached is a try at defining needs of NSI from NML.  Some if it  
>> uses NMwg terminology as I understand it.
>> I am thinking it would be good to sort this out and get a good  
>> definition by the end of OGF.

>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for writing this down -- a few comments.
>
> You mix the NMwg with the NML terminology -- the NML terminology has  
> improved much since the NMwg documents, and will deprecate the NMwg  
> schema.
>
> Here is a comparison table between NML and NSI, as far as we see.
> NSI                NML
> End Device    ---  Node
> Edgepoint     ---  Port
> Network       ---  Topology  (*1)
> Link          ---  Link
> Segment       ---  (under discussion)
> Service Group ---  n/a
> Level         ---  Layer
>
> (*1) If I understand your "network" correctly; the term network has  
> different meanings.
>
> Segment is still under discussion. We've used the term "Channel" a  
> few times, but there is no group consensus. Segment refers to a  
> multi layer concept, which will be defines in a separate schema.
>
> NML hasn't defined Service Group. It seems an important concept, so  
> perhaps we should.
>
> Have you seen the terminology comparison table at
> http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15512
>
> Regards,
> Freek Dijkstra
> Jeroen van der Ham

John Vollbrecht
Senior Network Engineer, Internet2
office 734 352 4960 cell 734 395 7890





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