[glue-wg] LDAP and SQL Rederings

[Laurence Field]

Is Tuesday 5th at 15:00 ok for everyone?

Laurence


Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org 
>   
>> [mailto:glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Field said:
>> I will provisionally suggest that we should have a phone 
>> conference on Wednesday 6th of May at 15:00 to discus these initial
>>     
> drafts.
>
> That clashes with a regular meeting for me, which runs from about 14.30
> to 16.00 CERN time.
>
>   I have another consideration to raise, concerning the question of
> whether the LDAP schema should contain objectclass definitions for the
> abstract classes. I think if we don't do that it makes life quite a lot
> harder for anyone trying to prototype an extension to the schema, at
> least if they want to do it with LDAP. For example, say that you wanted
> to create a new specialised version of Share to describe FTS channels
> (which may well be a real use case, currently it's done rather clumsily
> with GlueService and GlueServiceData). If there is no Share objectclass
> you have to do all the work of defining and deploying a new FTSShare
> class in the schema before you can test anything. By contrast, if the
> schema already contains a Share objectclass then you could publish a
> prototype object using Extension to carry the new attributes, try it out
> and modify if necessary, and only then define a new class in the schema
> once you know it will work. One of the selling points for glue 2 is
> supposed to be that it's easily extendable to cover services beyond
> computing and storage, so we shouldn't put unnecessary obstacles in the
> way of that.
>
> Stephen
>