Roman Łapacz wrote:
I'm sending you my first try of mapping owl topology desc into nml. Please, treat this as a start point for further discussion in order to get the final proposal for the NSI team.
Hi Roman, I have three main comments for now. 1. You use the nml "next" relation to signify a network connections. The "next" relation is already in use to describe something else: the order in XML lists (as such it is merely a syntactic construct, instead of an actual connection/relation between network elements). This was proposed in Salt Lake City last year, and agreed upon by a small margin. 2. You seem to define network ports and create relations between them to define a network topology. The NML method is instead to define the links, and create relations between them to define a network topology. You can either connect two links using a port, or connect them directly together (which is slightly shorter to describe circuits through a network). 3. As Jeroen mentioned, I would refer to vCard for defining contacts, and XML (or OWL) schemas are great in combining multiple schemas in one document. Freek