[gin-auth] Re: [mgi-auth] FYI: VO naming

[Dane Skow]

It's not the first time a .grid TLD idea has come up. I don't know  
what is involved in creating one. I'm sure it's not trivial, but none  
of the country codes or .org/.com/.biz really fit.

As of 2 minutes ago, I now own the grid.name domain so we might use  
that one. It doesn't have well established connotations (though I  
believe the intendition is for it to be used for individuals' names).  
It has a nice naming ring. Something to consider.

I fully agree that "good enough" beats "better but not quite  
available/robust" !

(Note, I changed the mailing list over to the new gin-auth one. Let's  
stop using mgi.)

Dane

On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:47 AM, <Rhys.Francis at csiro.au> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Well that's interesting because the issue I raised concerned the fact
> that VO names weren't fully qualified names in any global sense, so  
> once
> we recognise other people's CA's and then VOMS servers, partial
> qualification would no longer work.
>
> Afterwards I wondered if we should just use dns to qualify names, and
> then I wondered if we could get a .grid domain (and if not perhaps
> .grid.net domain).  We could let Dane run it :), then he can create a
> subdomain for each grid then we can call our VO servers and our VOs,
> whatever we like, if our software fully qualifies a right with the
> domain name of the server and its list of VO, groups and subgoups in
> which the right is defined.
>
> I am not an expert on dns and domain name spoofing so I don't know  
> if it
> is a good or a bad idea.
>
> The problem of the ontologies used by VO servers and hence the
> identifiers used to denote rights seems hard, especially as the rights
> are enacted by gateway services (not by the VO server), so a common  
> way
> of specification for gateway actions is required if we are to agree  
> on a
> set of common rights.  I think this means we need the smallest  
> possible
> set of the simplest possible rights to start with.
>
> Rhys
>
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> 03 9669 8135
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgi-auth at ggf.org [mailto:owner-mgi-auth at ggf.org] On Behalf
> Of Olle Mulmo
> Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2006 10:18 PM
> To: mgi-auth at ggf.org
> Subject: [mgi-auth] FYI: VO naming
>
>
>
> The issue of VO names came up at the GGF sessions last week. This is
> just an FYI to let people know that EGEE has taken the approach of
> DNS-alike, hierarchical names. ("Alike" in the sense that an actual
> DNS entry is not required, but that it should be a reasonable
> confidence that no name space clashes will occur.)
>
> Unfortunately, this naming convention has not been enforced to date.
>
> /O
>
> PS. Shouldn't this mailing list get renamed?
>