Hi Guys, I hope you like XML. I've just filled the nml-example repository with a whole bunch of examples and proposals that I like to go through next week at the OGF. If you haven't checked it out, do so now: svn checkout --username YourGridForgeName \ https://forge.ogf.org/svn/repos/nml-examples If you get a permission error, let me know off-list. The examples are also attached to this mail, but be aware that I may improve some typos and add clarifications in the coming days. The examples and proposals are: subtopology - hasNode four alternative proposals how to relate a topology and a node subtopology - hasTopology one example and three questions how to relate a topology to a subtopology (hopefully trivial after we decided on hasNode) subtopology - inbound-outbound-ports four proposals to decide on the term for ingress and egress ports subtopology - alias three proposal to relate a external port of a topology with its internal structure versioning - lifetime a (surely flawed) example how I interpreted Aaron's description of the current use of lifetime in IDC. versioning - aliases-lifetime versioning - aliases-version six proposals to describe the changes in a network over time using either a lifetime object or a version attribute vlans - compoundlink two questions on the exact name of the source/sink relation and the serial compound link relation vlans - vlan a proposal to describe vlans (Ethernet subnets) between hosts vlan - shared-switchingservice vlan - multiple-switchingservice <not yet written -- will follow sunday or monday> two proposals to describe multiple VLANs as one or more switching services inside a single node In case you wonder "haven't we decided on that already" -- in most cases, "yes" -- while going through previous examples, I've noted some small discrepancies. For examples some examples used "source" relation, while others used "hasSource". I don't care, so we should decide, and that's what this is about: make sure that we make a decision. Note the consensus and make the decision authoritative, so we can refer back to it, and update the previous examples to comply with the decision. I did my best to make all proposals stand on it's own, and VERY much hope that the decision for most proposals is a formality without discussion. Regards, Freek