AuthVO and Software Attributes (Re: [gin-info] Notes from July 10 telecon)

[Laura Pearlman]

It's been a couple weeks since I sent this mail, and so far no one has 
said that we need these attributes.  Am I correct in assuming we can 
drop them?

                   -- Laura

On 07/10/2006 11:35 PM, Laura Pearlman wrote:
> Attending:  Kazu, Yuji, and Laura.
>
> TeraGrid resources:  after the last meeting, I was going to talk to 
> Stu Martin about what Teragrid resources are available for GIN;  
> however, Stu is on vacation.  I'll see whether anyone on tomorrow's 
> wheels call knows the answer.
>
> Schema mapping:  the spreadsheet that Kazu sent around looks pretty 
> clear, but there are some issues using it for TeraGrid.  TeraGrid is 
> using (slightly modified versions of) standard Globus information 
> providers, which report information in GLUE 1.1 schema, not GLUE 1.2.  
> This means that a couple of the elements that appear in the 
> spreadsheet (AuthVO and Software) are not advertised through 
> TeraGrid's information systems.  We have, I think, two options for 
> dealing with this, depending on what our requirements are:
>
> 1.  We could create extensions to the GLUE 1.1 schema to hold this 
> information (the structure of these extensions would be the same as 
> the corresponding elements in GLUE 1.2) and modify the TeraGrid 
> information providers to provide this information.
> 2.  We could create schema extensions as above, but provide this 
> information only for non-TeraGrid resources (that is, anyone looking 
> at any information system, including TeraGrid's, would see AuthVO and 
> Software information for NAREGI and EGEE resources but not for 
> TeraGrid resources).
>
> It would be good to nail down the requirements and choose between 
> these courses of action fairly soon.
>
>                -- Laura