[Nsi-wg] master.xml

[Henrik Thostrup Jensen]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, John MacAuley wrote:

> I almost forgot the most important part - I think the contents of the 
> master.xml is actually incorrect.  We are basing everything off of 
> topology identifiers in the current master.xml when we should be basing 
> it off of NSA identifiers.

NSA id is definitely better than topology id here.

But do we really need any of the ids? The NSA id is contained in the 
document.

> Also, the NSA is the root element of our topology file and we should be 
> able to have multiple topologies in a single NSA element.

Did you read the security stuff I wrote (it does not exlucde this option, 
but there are some limitations except if come up with an alternative 
security model - and we really need one).

> Actually, what the master.xml file should contain is the list of 
> discovery interface for all NSA that would allow us to bootstrap the 
> network.

But we already have a discovery service :-). Our current topology service 
is really a discovery service with a topology crammed inside it.

But could we focus on getting a proper topology model first.


     Best regards, Henrik

  Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
  Software Developer, NORDUnet