I am forwarding this conversation and will forward some other related ones to the NSI and NML groups.  --

Note that I included the original doc in the message below.  - John

Begin forwarded message:
From: Freek Dijkstra <fdijkstr@science.uva.nl>
Date: May 7, 2009 10:21:51 AM GMT-04:00
To: John Vollbrecht <jrv@internet2.edu>
Cc: Martin Swany <swany@cis.udel.edu>,  Jeroen van der Ham <vdham@science.uva.nl>, Aaron Brown <aaron@internet2.edu>, Jeff Boote <boote@internet2.edu>,  Andrew Lake <alake@internet2.edu>
Subject: Re: NSI naming

John Vollbrecht wrote:

Attached is a try at defining needs of NSI from NML.  Some if it uses NMwg terminology as I understand it.
I am thinking it would be good to sort this out and get a good definition by the end of OGF.