[GRAAP-WG] Time Constraints Profile

[Alexander Papaspyrou]

Dominic, all,

the canonical use case is doing the daily weather report, or things  
like payroll. As such, there are real and serious applications for this.

Whether *we* want this, I don't know :-)

Best,
Alexander

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Alexander Papaspyrou
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Am 07.12.2009 um 14:39 schrieb Dominic Battre <mailinglists at battre.de>:

> Hello Costas,
>
> it would certainly be a possible extension.
>
> The question is do we want it? If we end up translating ical to XML we
> come to a specification that is extremely powerful but very  
> difficult to
> implement.
>
> Our idea was to use the simplest language that would be useful.
> Therefore, I would like to ask you and the others: Do you need  
> something
> like "every day, 9am-5pm"?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dominic
>
> Constantinos (Costas) Kotsokalis wrote:
>> Hi Dominic,
>>
>> Would you see fit to augment this also with some construct for  
>> defining
>> periodic durations? E.g. to be able to say "every day, 9am-5pm", or
>> things like that.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Costas
>>
>>
>> On 7 Dec 2009, at 13:43, Dominic Battre wrote:
>>
>>> Dear GRAAP members,
>>>
>>> we have seen in various discussions that there seems to be a  
>>> frequent
>>> desire for a standardized term language to express when a service  
>>> shall
>>> be delivered.
>>>
>>> Examples are:
>>>
>>> - Making a hardware reservation of a cluster for interactive use
>>>
>>> - Co-allocation of resources of various types (hardware, network,
>>> licenses, ...)
>>>
>>> - Defining a deadline for the completion of a job
>>>
>>> We have had a discussion about this in Banff after which Oliver  
>>> and I
>>> have prepared a proposal for a Time Constraints Profile for
>>> WS-Agreement. This proposal has been uploaded here:
>>>
>>> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15832?nav=1
>>>
>>> We would be eager to hear your comments.
>>>
>>> - Is the proposal clear?
>>>
>>> - Is the proposal complete?
>>>
>>> - Does the proposal satisfy your needs?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Dominic
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>>
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