[acs-wg] For the WG draft of the ACS Spec.

[Michael Behrens]

Agenda and time is good for me, assuming the hotel I'll be at has a good 
connection.
Will we be using Skype or what would be the dial-in #?
Also, I would have to leave the OGSA teleconference a little early, 
which would be okay, I think.

Keisuke Fukui wrote:

> Folks,
>
> As I announced I propose agenda for our discussions.
>
> I believe we need to visit a number of issues and considerations prior
> to have a WG draft of the ACS specification, which includes:
>
> - the new requirements from NAREGI PSE,
> - relationship to other GGF WGs, such as CDDLM-WG and planned WGs
>   for Execution Management System,
> - collaboration with IUDD standardization group and
> - recruiting involvement from the European communities.
>
> I will describe them in a bit more detail below:
>
> a) the new requirements from NAREGI PSE
>   - including source code to be compiled for each target platform at
>     or prior to the deployment of the application.
>   - storing compiled binaries for target platforms in the repository.
>   - storing (caching) the input and output data pairs through the 
> lifecycle
>     of the multiple executions of the application.
> b) relationship to the deployment API and component mode being 
> discussed in
>    the CDDLM-WG.
>    - 'addFile' interface in the deployment API looks to be a candidate
>      contact point with ACS, for example, "register" interface of ARI.
>    - where the ACS interfaces should stand in the CDDLM's lifecycle 
> model.
>    - other (expected) GGF WGs such as OGSA design teams.
> c) collaboration with IUDD standardization group
>    - Archive standard will be output from IUDD standardization. How can
>      we contribute to it, to archive the common format for the grid
>      deployment. Probably we should discuss Grid specific 
> consideration at
>      ACS, then report our outcome to the IUDD group.
>    - Repository interface standard for Grid system will be output from 
> GGF
>      ACS.
> d) recruiting involvement from the European communities.
>    One of the comments I got after the sessions is that we should seek 
> for
>    the participants from European Grid communities since they share much
>    with our usecase and scope. We need a research on this possibility.
>    UniGrid, EGEE, omii, and more...
>
> My plan is having a brainstorming on all of these agenda. Originally, 
> it was
> planned to discuss about our plan including the above at ACS-WG#2 
> session. It
> turned out, however, more difficult to perform this at the presence of 
> the
> audience explaining what is being discussed and with the limit of 
> time. To do
> the brainstorming the items, we have options below:
>
> - Tele-conferences
>   several times, one or two hours each.
> - Face-to-face meeting
>   probably one or two days. At the U.S. East coast or in Japan.
>
> We can do either or both depending on our schedule, in addition to the 
> regular
> mailing list discussion. Since we have not discussed the items at the 
> GGF13,
> I hope we discuss on this as soon as possible. Can we have a 
> tele-conference
> to talk about these next week? My proposal for the time is 3/30 Wed 
> 19:00EST
> (3/31 Thu  9:00JST). Please respond if this works for you.
>
> Also, please feel free to add agenda and give your feedback to the above.
> I hope that we are starting a great work from here.
>
>  -Keisuke
>
>
>

Happy Easter!

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