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NML Terena Abstract
by Jeroen van der Ham 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi all, Attached is the latest Terena abstract. If you have any corrections for this, please let me know, I'll submit it around 15:00 CET. Have a look at https://tnc2013.terena.org/web/participate/topics to see which track we should be in. I'm tending towards the "Creating Solutions" one. Jeroen.

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Conference call 22nd November
by Jeroen van der Ham 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hi, Last call before SC we briefly discussed having a call on the 22nd of November. We have a local ISOC event that Freek and I would like to attend, which would clash with the call. Would it be possible perhaps to move the call half an hour earlier? The proposal is to have it at: UTC 15:30 - CEST 16:30 - Eastern 10:30 - Pacific 7:30. Jeroen.

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First draft of NML Schema document
by Jeroen van der Ham 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hello all, It is with great trepidation that I present to you a draft of the "Network Markup Language Base Schema version 1". Please have a look through it and let us/me know what you think about this document. With the feedback we get, we will improve the document and we plan to finally start the process on this document next month. Thanks! Jeroen.

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Abstract for TERENA
by Jeroen van der Ham 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi all, We've discussed that we would like to prepare an abstract for the TERENA conference next year. The deadline for the extended abstracts (600-1200 words) is November 30th. I promised to write a structure for this abstract. I was thinking something like the following: Title: The Network Markup Language 1. Introdcution (general idea, bit of history, current status) 2. Schema Explanation (short description of the schema) 3. Use-Cases of NML 3.1 Supporting Network Monitoring (Application in PerfSonar?) 3.2 Supporting Network Provisioning (Application in NSI) Other use-cases? 4. Future Work (describe briefly plans for the future of NML) Who would like to contribute? What would you like to contribute on? Is there something missing in this structure that you think should be there? Jeroen.

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Identifiers and Security
by Jeroen van der Ham 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi, Last call we briefly discussed the issue of the identifiers and their relation to the security section of the schema document. I've tried to write something for this, and I would appreciate feedback: Implementers should be aware that the NML descriptions do not provide any guarantee regarding the integrity nor the authenticity. The NML documents also can not provide this for the identifiers contained in the documents. Implementers should use external means of verifying the authenticity of identifiers contained in the documents. Jeroen.

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brief minutes of the NML call today
by Jeroen van der Ham 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi, Very brief minutes of the call we had today: Present: Roman, Aaron, Freek, Jeroen - about two dozen views, but no responses yet on the NML schema draft - Roman will check layerencoding in the XML examples - use id for now, figure out the clashing yourself if present. use reference in a version 2 as a special relation A single document should be unambiguous and clear - make sure that we mention something along these lines in the security section. - Jeroen to checkout the definition of encoding in RDF - Freek will poke Andre for the Redmine transition - We will prepare an abstract for TNC2013, describing applications of NML, especially NSI. Jeroen will start with a structure after SC. Next call will be after SC, on November 22nd.

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