[GSM-WG] Notes from GSM-WG at OGF27

[Arie Shoshani]

Jens,

Thanks you very much for the excellent summary, and keeping those of us
who could not attend informed.

Arie


Jens Jensen wrote:
> Dear GSM-WG members (and data area directors).
>
> Here is a writeup of the GSM-WG meeting at OGF27. Freshly typed,
> ink is still wet.  Comments welcome.
>
> * It was announced that Arie, after a long stint with many significant
>   contributions to the group, has decided to retire as chair but will
>   stay involved in the group.  Likewise Alex as secretary.  Timur
>   Perelmutov from FNAL has been appointed co-chair (so we have one
>   from Europe and one from the US).
>
> * We had an introduction to SRM and a demo of using SRM within gLite,
>   but with a lot of questions from the audience, so it took 2/3 of the
>   time (1hr), covering at a high level the protocol, and how it fits into
>   the wider context of the (gLite) grid.
>
> * In the remaining 30 minutes, about 25 were spent discussing the
>   roadmap of the group: following up from the decision at Chapel Hill,
>   we summarised the discussions from Chapel Hill and since then.  When
>   the group is rechartered, the new charter needs to cover what's in
>   scope and what is not.  Numerous examples were given.  One of them
>   is quite recent: implementations are getting improved support for
>   checksumming, so clients are starting to make use of this.  Also,
>   the dCache decision to make ls asynchronous was discussed.  These
>   are typically changes well within the protocol, because the protocol
>   was designed to be very flexible, but the implications of the change
>   still need to be openly discussed.  Openness is important to ensure
>   that all communities have a chance to be heard, and to ensure that
>   the process is not hijacked by a specific community.
>
> * Another thing which is considered important is the use of SRM,
>   particularly outside the traditional HEP communities.  As an
>   example, we looked at a Biomed use case.
>
> * Also important is the role of the GSM-WG in relation to other OGF
>   groups.  Storage Elements with an SRM interface depend directly on
>   GridFTP and the GLUE schema.  And there are other less direct
>   relations to other OGF groups (which we did not have time to explore
>   further in this session.)
>
> * In the remaining 5 minutes, we looked very briefly at the comments
>   from the reviewer on GFD.129 and GFD.154.  The comments were related
>   to something discussed during the "introduction" part of the
>   session, so we could close it fairly quickly.  The group will write
>   a response which will be published on gridforge.
>
> Thanks
> --jens
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