[GFS-WG] Fw: Re: Fw: RNS 1.1 and misc other documents

[Osamu Tatebe]

Hi all,

I forward the email from Erwin that is blocked by some reason.
Please see below and send comments to the ML.

Thanks,
Osamu

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:45:32 +0100
From: Erwin Laure <erwin.laure at cern.ch>
To: Osamu Tatebe <tatebe at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>, gfs-wg at ogf.org
Cc: grimshaw at virginia.edu, martinde at us.ibm.com, mmm2a at virginia.edu, kas9ud at virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Fw: RNS 1.1 and misc other documents


Hi,

I haven't seen any further comments to this. As I believe the points 
raised below can be addressed quite easily and don't block pushing the 
spec out for public comments.

So I call the group for final comments before pushing the RNS 1.1 spec 
out for public comments by January 20.

Cheers,

-- Erwin

Osamu Tatebe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After the publication of RNS Specification (GFD.101), we have
> discussed about interoperability and ambiguous issues in the
> spec.  Attached there are four docs that Andrew's group
> prepared including RNS 1.1 proposed spec.
> 
> The original agreement was OGSA Naming WG would take over after
> 1.0, but by the following discussion with area directors and
> Andrew's group, GFS-WG proceeds with the discussion of RNS Spec.
> 
> Regarding the WS-Iterator Spec, the home WG is not decided yet,
> but we would like to discuss it since we really need it.
> 
> Please feel free to provide comments and questions about these
> specs.  We would like to finalize the discussion before the
> Chrismas time.
> 
> Here are comments from our group.
> 
> - Multiple endpoints at each entry are requested by many parties
>   mostly because of management of file replicas.  I know it would
>   be managed by WS-Naming, but allowing multiple endpoints provides
>   much more flexibility.  Also, even when WS-Naming is not supported,
>   we can manage file replicas.
> 
> - By performance reason, we would like to consider operations to add
>   multiple entries at once.
> 
> - Lookup operation now accepts exact entry name or NULL that means
>   directory entry listing.  Is specifying wildcard to filter entries
>   useful?
> 
> Thanks,
> Osamu
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:43:58 -0400
> From: "Andrew Grimshaw" <grimshaw at virginia.edu>
> To: "'David E Martin'" <martinde at us.ibm.com>, "'Erwin Laure'" <erwin.laure at cern.ch>, "'Osamu Tatebe'" <tatebe at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> Cc: "'Mark Morgan'" <mmm2a at virginia.edu>, "'Karolina Sarnowska'" <kas9ud at virginia.edu>
> Subject: RNS 1.1 and misc other documents
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> Here are the documents we promised - they are of course drafts. There are
> four docs.
> 
>  
> 
> 1)    The RNS 1.1 proposed spec - see appendix A on what is different from
> the 1.0
> 
> 2)    WS-Iterator draft
> 
> 3)    A white paper on why we chose not to use WS-Enumeration
> 
> 4)    The RNS 1.1 OGSA WSRF Basic Profile Rendering 1.0
> 
>  
> 
> Enjoy
> 
>  
> 
> A