On 02/17/2014 02:39 PM, Leeyoung wrote:
Hi Vijay,
I read your agenda page you just published. I read the following as one of the
agenda:
(Informational) A survey of techniques to formalize the structure
of a network graph (that can derived from a set of related ALTO
network and cost maps) in a format that would facilitate advanced
graph computation. Such survey will cover both models used in
popular open-source software (e.g. NetworkX, Blueprints) and models
being considered in other working groups (e.g. netmod, i2rs). (18')
Have the WG already decided this item to be just informational not on standard
track?
I thought the mailing discussions in the last few weeks show that there are
Sufficient interests and willingness to work on this item.
Young: The interest and willingness to work is precisely why it is on
the list of work items! Whether this turns out to be Informational,
Standards track or Experimental is yet to be determined; the track on
the agenda is merely where discussions start.
Clearly, the discussion we had on the list lead to an understanding
that this is a sufficiently complex topic that any pithy attempt to
characterize it merely for the sake of "doing something" will not be
valued as much as a reasoned attempt to catalogue what is missing from
the current models to represent graphs. Once we have such a
distinction, it becomes relatively easy to figure out how to close
the gap.
Should we blithely put a deliverable of "Graph representation and
dynamic graph transformation techniques", I suspect that there will be
some push back from the IESG on exactly what this means, considering
that even among us there is some trepidation that we should do the
easy part (graph representation) first before tackling the hard
part (graph transformation). Remember, the charter is produced by
the BoF/WG but has to be accepted by the IESG. As such, taking a
nuanced approach by understanding the missing pieces first appears to
make sense, no?
We will discuss this some more during London, of course.
Cheers,
- vijay
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