[graap-wg] updated draft - misc comments

[Jon MacLaren]

Hi Karl,

Some miscellaneous comments on the revised spec.  Comments on symmetry  
and signed agreements to follow.  (I may listen in on the telecon, but  
I am aware that this will not get round to people in time to be widely  
read before it happens.)

S1.1.1 - P6 - Composability with negotiation models.  I never  
understood this either.  How would you  "base" a negotiation protocol  
which required some sort of lengthy interaction on WS-Agreement?  I  
wondered if this just meant that the document format would be used, and  
that a different, unrelated messaging protocol would be used.  I'd love  
to see an example of what this means.

S2.1 P8.  I think you could greatly simplify this example by rewriting  
it to reflect the explanation on the list, i.e. that WS-Agreement can  
be used as a successor to GRAM, carrying a job description as a  
payload.  The example as currently written has a lot of detail, and is  
unclear.

S3 - P10, 11  Leaving symmetry to one side, I agree with the comments.   
I think perhaps the whole of S3 could be re-written, and greatly  
simplified in the process.  There are sections, like the one you  
suggest might be out-of-scope, which can be removed.

Jon.


On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Karl Czajkowski wrote:

> Jim has kindly posted version 12 of the draft, including comments and
> revisions by me. The comments emphasize my concerns about the existing
> presentation and content of some sections.
>
> The revisions attempt to add the extensibility needed for Jon's
> signature problem (without actually defining any signature-related
> syntax) and the "async" interfaces.  I also removed the Terminate
> operation.  I am sure there are presentation problems and
> inconsistencies, but hopefully this is a more concrete basis for
> further discussion of these proposed changes.
>
> Please ignore the appendix entirely.  The main sections are intended
> to be normative and the appendix is unknown older content that I did
> not touch.
>
>
> karl
>
> https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/graap-wg/document/WS- 
> AgreementSpecificationDraft.doc/en/12
>
>
> -- 
> Karl Czajkowski
> karlcz at univa.com
>