Dear Jessica,

related with your question, I would like to point you to VXDLforum (http://www.vxdlforum.org), an international community for developing standards for Virtual Infrastructures (VIs) modeling.
By using this forum, you can find a description about VXDL, a language for modeling network and IT resources in a combined way, and interact with some projects and developers that are using VXDL for representing their VIs.

VXDL is a language for facilitating the specification and the manipulation of VIs. The purpose of this language is to simplify the dialogue between users and providers by providing a grammar independent of the underlying physical substrate.
As VXDL proposes a high-level description, I think it should be interesting in your context.

Hope this forum can help you. 
Best regards,
Guilherme Koslovski


On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Connah Jessica J wrote:

Hi,
 
I am currently working on a project looking at capturing networks in a tool agnostic way so that we can then easily migrate the networks onto different tools.  I am interested in the outputs of your working group and what you decided was the best way to tackle this problem.
 
I look forward to hearing from you.
 
Kind regards,
Jessica Connah 
Future Network Systems 
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