NMWG has been working on a XML representation of network performance data (characteristics). Due to the recent work of GEANT GN2 and the PerfSONAR collaboration, a recent surge of interest and activity has began to make network monitoring more generic and accessible.
This work will form a fundamental part of the numerous services and clients that will consume perfsonar data. the need is two fold:
The success of this work will depend upon the flexibility and efficiency by which the Perl-NMWG interaction can take place. Perl has been chosen due to the ability to quickly prototype and build functional proof of concept programs from which one can experiment with ideas and solutions.
Yee-Ting Li