[glue-wg] LDAP and SQL Rederings

[David Horat]

Ok with me.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Laurence Field <Laurence.Field at cern.ch>wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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