[GFS-WG] RNS 1.1 v3

[Erwin Laure]

Thanks a lot, Mark!

It would be great to get quick feedback on the changes in RNS 1.1 from the 
gfs-wg so we can push it out for public comment maybe even before OGF26.

I guess the iterator is being taken care of by ogsa-naming?

Cheers,

-- Erwin

Mark Morgan wrote:
> As promised, Andrew and I just finished updating the proposed RNS 1.1
> specification (and WS-Iterator specification) as discussed at the last
> OGF.  As before, I would like to clarify that while the documents
> presented are in "official" OGF spec. format (if there is such a thing),
> that coincidence is merely for lack of a better format to use (i.e.,
> this is a draft recommendation to the groups, not a completed spec.).
> 
> The changes in these documents were mostly to address
> concerns/thoughts/comments from the last OGF.  Namely, a couple of
> changes to the wsdl/schema for typo's and some clarifying comments there
> as well.  Further, the RNS port type has been changed to support batch
> operations on all operations except lookup (which already had a
> "batch-like" mode).  Almost all changes to ws-iterator were cosmetic.
> 
> There are three documents in question.  The first two relate to RNS and
> are modelled after the ogsa byteio working groups attempt to address
> difficulties in OGSA BP renderings.  These two documents consist of a
> rendering agnostic specification document generally describing RNS and
> RNS operations and giving example SOAP and XML for any operations which
> would be rendering agnostic.  THe second document, the RNS-rendering
> document, renders the specification as an OGSA-WSRF-BP 1.0  adherent
> specification.  The assumption of course being that as other renderings
> became available, they could likewise be used to produce alternate
> rendering compliant versions of the RNS 1.1 specification without
> invalidating the existing ones.
> 
> The last document is for WS-iterator.  As described before and detailed
> in the document itself, this specification is meant to provide a more
> "wsrf-like" interface to iteration then available specs like
> WS-Enumeration do.  Because this is wsrf specific and meant only to
> replace alternately available methods of iteration to provide a more
> convenient abstraction for the WSRF-based RNS, this document is not
> split into two versions but rather consists of the entire specification
> and rendering (an OGSA-WSRF-BP 1.0 rendering) together.
> 
> See you all at OGF!
> 
> -Mark