[Nsi-wg] [AutoGole] Ports relations

[Jeroen van der Ham]

Hi,

On 25 Sep 2013, at 16:45, Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> 
>> Question to the group: Would this break current parsers?
> 
> For OpenNSA, only the last isAlias would be used. So a little. But I see the case with port mirror, /multiple sources/sinks and whatnot.
> 
> Followup question: Is anyone using this?

That's not really what I mean, consider the example of the SwitchingService in the original NML spec, adapted to the NSI context:


<nml:Topology id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:topology">
  <nml:name>Topology_A</nml:name>
  <nml:Relation type="http://schemas.ogf.org/nml/2013/05/base#hasInboundPort">
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_X:in" />
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_Y:in" />
  </nml:Relation>
  <nml:Relation type="http://schemas.ogf.org/nml/2013/05/base#hasOutboundPort">
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_X:out"/>
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_Y:out"/>
  </nml:Relation>
  <nml:Relation type="http://schemas.ogf.org/nml/2013/05/base#hasService">
<nml:SwitchingService id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:switchingService">
  <nml:Relation type="http://schemas.ogf.org/nml/2013/05/base#hasInboundPort">
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_X:in" />
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_Y:in" />
  </nml:Relation> 
  <nml:Relation type="http://schemas.ogf.org/nml/2013/05/base#hasOutboundPort">
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_X:out"/>
    <nml:Port id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:nodeA:port_Y:out"/>
  </nml:Relation>
  <nml:Relation type="http://schemas.ogf.org/nml/2013/05/base#providesLink">
      <nml:Link id="urn:ogf:network:example.net:2013:LinkA:XY"/>
  </nml:Relation>
</nml:SwitchingService>
  </nml:Relation>
</nml:Topology>