Re: [Planetlab-arch] Naming of parts

[Scott K. <sc...@CS...>]

sites.xml now contains site-ids and node-ids -- these are simply
integers.  Will this suit your needs?

Scott


On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:59:47PM -0800, Timothy Roscoe wrote:
> 
> Since there seems to be a good discussion going, I thought I'd throw
> some more petrol on the fire, as it were.
> 
> Naming of slices and sites.
> 
> PLC needs to name slices and sites.  Other brokerage services
> presumably will need to do something similar.  How do we do it?
> 
> Let's start with sites.  Sites are needed because PlanetLab is
> site-based - if you don't have a site you don't get any slices.  Right
> now we allocate short identifiers (gt, irb, etc.) to sites.   If it
> continues unchecked, this process will eventually lead to long,
> expensive, bitter, and obnoxious copyright lawsuits in the future
> (it's only a matter of time before the International Rugby Board want
> to join PlanetLab and their lawyers start coming after us at
> Berkeley). Options include:
> 
>  - stay with the current, arbitrary, short names.  See above. 
>  - DNS.  irb -> berkeley.intel-research.net.  Still acrimonious, but
>    at least we stay out of the immediate crossfire. 
>  - something else?
> 
> Slices: slice names can be scoped to the creating PI's institution,
> but this doesn't alter the need to say what slice names are.
> 
>  - Readable slice names will presumably be bound "temporarily" to
>    unique-for-all-time identifiers for slices, which in our case we
>    have not got.  If so, shouldn't these uids be usable with the RPC
>    API as well?
> 
>  - Do readable slice names get allocated by PIs at slice creation
>    time?
> 
> Flame on...
> 
>  -- Mothy
> 
> 
> 
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