[byteio-wg] Notes from last telcon 25/7/06

[neil p chue hong]

ByteIO Telcon Notes 25/7/06

Mark Morgan
Neil Chue Hong
Michel Drescher
Amy Krause

Next call is 8th August 2006 UK time BST.

GGF Session has been requested.

Mark still has the editing token on revisions of the specs.


Michel circulated a draft of an interop testing.

One of the questions is whether you test multiple clients with service
implementations or provide a reference implementation of a client.

If you just test clients against service implementations you are not
actually testing against the spec (proper validation) you are just testing
that they work together.

We are not testing "real" clients but a representation of client side code.


Does this mean that each implementor needs to provide a client library along
with some way to script it.

Put out a script/scenario a month earlier so that each implementor can run
the scenario using their own client and service code.

Could base this on JUnit/NUnit.

Use some forum (the mailing list) where people could advertise endpoints,
discuss problems. These endpoints are for "pre-testing".

On the actual interop day, you are trying to fill in the tables for clients
and services for each test case.

Suggest that createResource operation should take as an input parameter a
unique string, and then assign a unique string to each interop case to allow
implementators to turn on and off different cases, to allow for lazy
implementations.

Hold off on "pre-testing" discussion until we have published a first public
draft of the document.

Michel will create a new folder on Gridforge for storage of interoperability
material.

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