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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">H<font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">i everyone,<br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">first of all, I want
to thank you for putting effor<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">t in creating this a<font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">wsome </font>open standard.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I started working with
it just<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> at the
beginning of 2013</font></font>, and soon after I understood
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">why this is <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">amazing<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">: it could make GIS <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">libraries written in
comp<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">letely
different</font> languages interop<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">erable, making it
easy to develop and share bits of reusable code</font></font></font></font></font>,
it created an ecosystem<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
and then finally even <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">github implemented it so that geojson files
would be displayed as maps.<br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Working <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">a lot in<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> the networking
field, I wondered: why there's no standard JSON format
to represent common<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> network<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">ing tasks<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> l<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">ik<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">e <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">configuration of devices,
routing protocols topologies, monitoring
data? A </font></font></font></font></font>JSON
for networks like</font> GeoJSON</font></font></font>
is for GIS.<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Developing <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">web app<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">s that deal with
network<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">s is
terribly painful. Why it has to be like that?</font></font></font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">So I started
talking about this at the Google Summer of Code Reunion<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 2014 <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">in San J<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">ose </font></font>with
some other peers and friends, we liked the idea</font></font>
and we started working via mailing list and then I f<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">inally tr<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">ied to put a first
draft <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">on this
repo: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/interop-dev/json-for-networks">https://github.com/interop-dev/json-for-networks</a><br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I'm here to
ask <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">you
a few questions<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">, hoping that you can share with
us some of your experience.<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
<ul>
<li>how much time passed between the first idea and the first
implementation?</li>
<li>how much time passed between the finalization of the spec and
the RFC?</li>
<li>were there conflicts while defining the spec? If yes, do you
have any suggestion for us in case it happens for us too?<br>
</li>
<li>how can we encourage others to implement the new format in
their projects? How did you achieve this?</li>
<li>are there mistakes you did that you can share with us? Things
to avoid at all costs?</li>
<li>are there suggestions you want to share with us? <br>
</li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thank
you very much for your attention<font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">.</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Best regards<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Federico <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Capoano</font></font><br>
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