[glue-wg] Extending GLUE 2.0 for Cloud services

[Salvatore Pinto]

Hi Stephen,
sorry for the late answer.

On 05/11/2013 15:58, stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Salvatore Pinto [mailto:salvatore.pinto at egi.eu] said:
>> The underlying physical storage may be shared by different types of
>> objects, while the endpoints usually are dedicated to a particular
>> object type (Grid Endpoints usually serve files and streams, EBS is
>> served via OCCI and generic objects via CDMI), so I tough it was better
>> to place it in the Endpoint.
> To the extent that the type is implicit in the protocol, e.g. SRM = file, you don't necessarily need an extra attribute at all, and you also have the Capability attribute for things which are relatively generic - we already have data.access.flatfiles for example. Also in the Share we have an AccessMode attribute - for which I think we don't actually have a use at the moment!
>
> Stephen
>
I think the Capability attribute in the endpoint is the best, as Florido 
proposed.

Cheers,
   Salvatore.

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Salvatore Pinto
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