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

[Osamu Tatebe]

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

 

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