One of the first year's deliverables for the MW-E2ED advisory group was to implement a test infrastructure that could provide a base platform to study the concepts of the diagnostic backplane and provide an initial framework that could be used for a distribution to the larger I2 community. The goals of the pilot are,

• Study normalization strategies of the diagnostic data
• Provide simple operators to manipulate diagnostic data
• Collect and distribute the data in a highly flexible manner via piping of diagnostic data streams
• Enable basic forensic applications
• Leverage resources of other initiatives where possible to achieve a common goal
• Verify the value of the common event record
• Build an ultra modular architecture where the impact of its evolution is minimized

To achieve these goals, the following design criteria were used,

• Highly modular architecture utilizing standard building blocks
• Focus on a simple and extensible lightweight design
• Utilize existing libraries, utilities, modules and standards instead of existing systems
• We have looked at many, but there is no existing software that does all we need
• Use Python as a full-featured rapid development language
• Widely included with Linux distributions
• Works well in the Windows environment
• Enables offloading of compute intensive processes to better suited languages

The following collection of documents describe the concepts of the pilot effort, outline conclusions and proposed next steps.

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