Subj : Re: linked
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Bob Short
Date : Tue Dec 17 2002 10:30 am

On 14 Dec 02  19:26:21, Jasen Betts said the following to Bob Short:

JB> open source stuff is easily to deal with,  but even closed
JB> source stuff can be "destruction tested" with artificial scenariaos.

But unnecessesary.  The fields for POTS entries is fine.

JB> nets with 10000 nodes, nodelist lines longer than the available memory,
JB> that sort of stuff :)

We only WISH we had that many node in a new.  <g>  
The rest is insignificant when using newer SW to read/write the info.

JB> personally I don't feel XML is the answer at the moment
JB> I lean more towards a lightweight structuered list

Restructured, and it may be that an ESLNL would be a bit larger.  It
will require a short enrty for the POTS 1/2, and the expanded enrty
for the IP section... though it will allow merging of data currently
spread over several enrties into a single one (multiple connectivity).

JB> one format dreamt up by Frank Vest an I went like this:

<snip>

Except that this concept would require rearranging the POTS listings
too, thus making people change SW to read it.  :(  But if that format
is used in the IP section...

Bob

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