[acs-wg] [ogsa-d-wg] OGSA-D-WG description for ACS specification:

[Michael Behrens]

Thanks for the feedback - I'll change it accordingly.

btw: Sorry I missed the BOF - hope it went well!

Allen Luniewski wrote:

>
> Michael,
>
> When I think of OGSA-D I think that a major focus of what data 
> services provide is access to data (in a very general sense of access) 
> and your second sentence acknowledges this.  Since we care about 
> access to data, the movement of data is another key.  So, in the kind 
> of brief summary that you are writing, I would tend to change the 
> first sentence to say something more like "... which provide for 
> access to data on the grid."  Obviously not a fully descriptive phrase 
> but I think that it comes closer than "distribution of data".
>
> Allen Luniewski
> IBM Information Management:  Strategy Grid/On Demand Strategy
>
> behrens wrote:
> This is being posted to the ACS and OGSA-D group for inter-group 
> communication purposes.
> ACS needs to be aware of data services as they will impact the ACS 
> specification at some point in time.
> The ACS specification has a non-normative section for describing 
> relationships with other groups/activities.
> This is the proposed paragraph for your review - what do you think?
>
> "The OGSA Data Working Group defines the data services which provide 
> for distribution of data on the grid.  ACS can utilize protocols being 
> specified such as Byte-IO, GridFTP, and possibly Replication.  ACS 
> provides an extension point for protocols which allow implementations 
> to specify which protocols are supported.  The ACS team has reviewed 
> their briefings and draft documents with interest.  Interaction with 
> the OGSA Data Working group is expected to increase during the 
> development of the next version of this specification."
>
>
> -- 
> Michael Behrens
> R2AD, LLC
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>
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