[glue-wg] RetentionPolicy definitions

[Burke, S (Stephen)]

Maarten Litmaath [mailto:Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch] said:
> My point is that any site can claim they offer a service to a VO;
> if that service turns out to remain unusable after negotiation, the VO
> will _have_ to blacklist it somehow, to avoid that it keeps getting
> discovered and tried!

Yes, that's obviously true, but if the reason for blacklisting is a
feature (or missing feature) of the service which is not being
advertised then that would be a flag to me that the schema should be
enhanced to publish it.

> Agreed, this ought to be advertized, but I do not think it is 
> important enough for consideration at this stage, given the
deadlines...

Perhaps so, but I'm always unhappy about stopping something purely to
meet some arbitrary deadline. In the past we regularly released buggy
software to hit a deadline and it gave us a bad reputation.
Realistically glue 2 will probably not be in use before 2010, and
anything which is wrong or missing will not be fixed before maybe 2013,
if ever (and anything which would be a structural change rather than
just a new attribute is almost certainly "never"), so from my point of
view we should try do do the best job we can now. 

Stephen