[glue-wg] New Endpoint and Service types
Paul Millar
paul.millar at desy.de
Fri Apr 4 08:58:04 EDT 2014
Hi Florido,
On 25/03/14 12:00, Florido Paganelli wrote:
> After reading all the discussion with Stephen, I am convinced of one thing:
[..]
>> Capability is better; however, the OGSA definitions are (currently)
>> higher-level functionality; they don't (currently) specify which
>> protocol the endpoint supports.
>>
>> Additional definitions could be added but I'm not sure this is the
>> correct approach.
>>
>
> This is the only correct approach, despite what OGSA definitions are. If
> Capabilities are open enumerations, we're free to set another route, and
> create specific ones for protocol.
[...]
> I vote for creating better Capabilities.
Sounds good to me.
My I suggest we have a standard way of mapping an OGF and RFC
specification to a Capability? This could be a URL or a URN.
That way, publishing the correct Capabilities becomes straight-forward
and no further registration is needed.
Cheers,
Paul.
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