[Nsi-wg] Topology update

[Jeroen van der Ham]

Hi,

On 1 Oct 2013, at 09:13, John MacAuley <john.macauley at surfnet.nl> wrote:
> A couple comments with respect to the OpenNSA topology if I may.  Nothing serious, and could be considered general requirements.  BTW, my diagrams already had these fixes in them, so we are still stuck with some islands.
> 
> There are no latitude and longitude coordinates in the topology.  Do we want to put them in to help with visualization, or should we just not rely on these at all.  Looking more for a statement on usage consistency.

That's a shame, I was hoping they would be in there.

> How are we using the <name> element associated with the <topology> element?  Is this simply a user friendly name for display?  This is the way I have been using it, and assumed their are no uniqueness requirements associated with this element.

They are indeed meant as human friendly labels, and there are absolutely no restrictions on them.

Jeroen.