[Nml-wg] Identifier Proposal
Jeroen van der Ham
vdham at uva.nl
Wed Mar 4 08:36:19 CST 2009
Hello,
More and more groups are using network descriptions, and want to
identify specific resources, e.g. a specific node, link, or instance of
a (light)path. Defining an instance identifier format is also in scope
of the NML-WG. Yesterday we discussed this in the meeting, with several
proposals (see the slides on GridForge). In the end in the meeting there
was consensus on using the following:
urn:ogf:network:<dns name>:<opaque part>
So for example: "urn:ogf:network:example.net:xyz123".
The opaque part of the identifier is determined by the originating
domain, and it should be completely opaque. Other domains should not
interpret that part, other than seeing it as a unique identifier for a
resource. This makes it possible to define equality as a simple string
comparison between identifiers.
If you have any questions or comments on this proposal, please let us know.
Regards,
Jeroen.
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