Re: [lmap] user-initiated testing

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:40:31PM +0000, Bugenhagen, Michael K wrote:
> 
>    I'm assuming that a MA, can include a test initator, and or, a test responder function.
> These are distinct existing functions in use today.

I think we are facing terminology clashes. Can we agree to use one
terminology? I assume what you call a 'test initiator' is what [1]
calles a Measurement Agent and what you call a 'test responder' is
what [1] calls a Measurement Peer. These are functions. How you
package them is an implementation decision.

> My Deeper Answer - we should have a Abstract MA concept here -
> 
>    My MA assumption is that a MA should in fact be capable of supporting any new test function without being re-invented.  
> Therefore - a Test MA function is really an abstracted subset of functions that support any and all types of testing frameworks, and the MA abstraction model should allow any existing test to be ported to it.
> 

I am trying to translate from what I assume is your terminology but I
get somewhere lost in the second sentence.

/js

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eardley-lmap-terminology-02

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