[glue-wg] Endpoint.TrustedCA and ComputingEndpoint.TrustedCA Inconsistency in GFD147

[stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk]

glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Florido Paganelli said:
> We recently stumbled upon problems while running EMI-ES integration tests across EMI middleware. The reason is there are different 
> descriptions and therefore different interpretations of the TrustedCA attribute in Endpoint and ComputingEndpoint.

Probably the text for Endpoint was updated but not copied to ComputingEndpoint - the Endpoint text is correct. The basic point is that publishing every CA for every Endpoint would be a huge data volume, and in practice I think we have no clients that use it. Also the majority of Grid sites use a completely standard set of CAs so most of the information would be duplicated.

> Does "This" still mean a DN or a string?

It means a string used as a reserved word - "IGTF" in this case.

> Sometimes these GLUE2 inconsistencies make me crazy :P

If you expect absolutely precise definitions of everything I suggest you stop working in Grids ...

Stephen