[jsdl-wg] Requirements and preferences on resources

[Donal K. Fellows]

Massimo Sgaravatto wrote:
> It is not clear to me if/how it is possible to specify not only 
> requirements, but also preferences on resources, for example to allow a 
> smart brokering service to choose among multiple resources matching the 
> resource requirements.
> 
> If you are familiar with Condor, I am referring to something similar to 
> Requirements and Rank of Condor classads

That's outside the scope of JSDL. Firstly, it's easy to mix in elements
from some other specification to do this (see WS-Agreement for example)
and secondly, it'd take years longer to get anything like a spec if we
tried to do this *as well* as what we've already done. :^)

Donal.