And a quick survey -was- Re: [wsfii-discuss] CNML - a draft from WOS

[Ramon Roca]

Good! :) Many thanks kloschi!

Time to time I do realize, even more, that this is very important. The 
first step in any direction in terms of development, if we don't want to 
have to walk back quite often, starts here.
I'm going a try to go forward developing the draft, and even 
implementing it at guifi.net. We have already some xml outputs, so it's 
just a matter of doing some cleansing to fit the CNML objectives.
Take in mind however that we will do in the way that we have some 
experience for doing so, we have already some data to pull and we have a 
clue of how to represent it (i.e. a multiple-location network, their 
nodes and some of their services and devices, network information in 
ipv4 and ospf). However another things which should be at the CNML 
others may have a lot more experience (i.e. describing OLSR networks, 
ipv6, the Alexej concept of zeroconf spontaneous networking devices, 
etc...).
So let's take it as an open process, and everybody feel free to provide 
their 2 cents on it!

I'm quite confident than in a few days/weeks we'll have already some 
working examples and first implementations.

That will enable us to go further i.e. in things like developing new 
mapping applications, webs, device extensions/firmwares or whatever the 
folks spontaneously wants to work with ;)

Finally I want also to rise just one question, just remebering one of 
the ideas dropped by vortex, and make a quick survey on it:
"Community" is not always the best term to use. In this case we want to 
build networks foll all of us, not just a few ones or a given local 
community or group since it could mean exclusions. What about SNML? 
(where S stands forSpontaneous). We're still on time to change it :)

Cheers!
Ramon.

En/na kloschi ha escrit:
> Hi friends,
>
> sorry for the delay, but finally I summed up the inspiring talk at this
> years wizards of os in berlin, two weeks ago. 
> it was a spontaneous gathering of different project, like hivenetworks,
> openwrt, wifidog, guife.net, freifunk.net, b.a.t.m.a.n. ..
>
> we discussed the need of the here and there already heared cml or CNML,
> Community Network Markup Language.
>
> As my server is not there yet, there is no mailinglist yet, but for
> interim I'd propose the WSFII wiki for posting and this mailinglist here
> for discussing the issue.
>
> have fun while reading here:
> http://summit.airjaldi.com/wiki/index.php/Community.Network.Markup.Language
>
> kind regards,
> kloschi
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