[glue-wg] OSG dropping GLUE?

[Paul Millar]

Hi Maria (and Maarten, and others)

On 12/05/15 09:36, Maria Alandes Pradillo wrote:
[...]
> Having said that, we are in touch with OSG so that any possible plan
> to deprecate the BDII on their side is properly announced and
> planned, so users know what to expect from the Information System.

I just got the following from Brian via the GGUS ticket #113580:

 > To be clear - OSG is in the process of deprecating and removing the
 > BDII (that is, having sites no longer show up in the WLCG BDII), in
 > conjunction with our USCMS and USATLAS stakeholders.  This has been a
 > multi-year process to remove the BDII requirement from various
 > monitoring, validation, job submission, transfer and accounting
 > systems.
 >
 > This is starting to show externally-visible differences after multiple
 > years of effort.  The USCMS side completed first and we turned-down
 > the first USCMS Tier-2 site last week.  More will follow as USCMS
 > coordinates internally.  It's still an ongoing effort within USATLAS
 > and we will run the BDII service for as long as a stakeholder needs
 > it.
 >
 > [...]

So, it looks like USCMS at least are currently in the process of 
switching off sites, so they will disappear from the info-system.

Cheers,

Paul.