[ogsa-bes-wg] draft-ggf-ogsa-bes-spec-v5

[Andreas Savva]

I probably can't make the call today either so here are some comments 
wrt v5. Hope they are of use.

- 3.1 CreateActivityFromJSDL:
There should also be a fault for 'Not a JSDL 1.0 document' to cover the 
case of a document being well formed but not JSDL 1.0.

3.2 GetActivityStatus
The definition of the fault feels like dictating implementation too 
much. If, say, a list of 100 activities is passed in and only 1 does not 
exist why shouldn't I be able to return a document with any gathered 
information including 'unknown activity' for just that activity? So I'd 
rather have no fault here and extend the definition of the values 
returned in the output document.

The definition of state 'Other' (p7) says that it is an 'unknown' state 
but this is not correct. 'Unknown' and 'Other' should be separate with 
'Other' being an extensibility point. And it should be possible to 
return  additional information in that case. So the structure defined 
should be
...
    <OverallStatus state="(enumerated state)" otherstate="(this 
container specific states)"?)
...
and otherstate is only defined when state=Other

Andreas


Steven Newhouse wrote:
> Further change tracked revsion to the changes Andrew made in the call.
> 
> Ignoring white space alterations:
> * Extra arrow on the action state change diagram for Not Started to 
> Active change.
> * Revision to the execution action with the 'Execution State' being 
> reflected in the top-level state diagram.
> * Moving the authorisation issue to the security section.
> 
> Discussion will continue from section 3.3 on this Thursday's call.
> 
> Steven