[ogsa-hpcp-wg] Version 0.1 of HPC Basic Profile document

[Ian Foster]

cool ... nice thinking -- Ian.

At 08:43 AM 8/25/2006 +0100, Michel Drescher wrote:
>Ian, all,
>
>without having the draft read yet:
>
>Inspired from the (obviously extremely successful *g*) HTTP/1.1 
>specification, I would apply "be generous in what you accept, but exact in 
>what you emit" here:
>
>So I would suggest stating that a client SHOULD send vectors of length 1, 
>and the consuming service SHOULD accept longer vectors. However, the 
>service MUST consume only the first element in that input vector.
>
>That would relieve us from defining faults for this case (faults for empty 
>or non-existing input vectors still apply, though).
>
>Cheers,
>Michel
>
>Ian Foster wrote:
>>Marvin:
>>Regarding: "The only restriction on the BES base case specification is 
>>that for the GetActivitiesStatus, TerminateActivities, and 
>>GetJSDLDocuments operations the length of the input vector of activities 
>>parameter MUST be exactly 1."
>>Is there a need to indicate the error that should be returned if the 
>>length is different than 1?
>>Ian.
>>
>>At 10:49 PM 8/24/2006 -0700, Marvin Theimer wrote:
>>>Hi;
>>>
>>>Enclosed is the revised version of the HPC Basic Profile document.
>>>I've added the paragraph to section 3 making it explicit that JSDL 
>>>documents MAY include additional elements that a compliant system may 
>>>respond to with a fault and I've filled in section 4 on BES.
>>>
>>>Marvin.
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>>
>
>
>--
>Michel <dot> Drescher <at> uk <dot> fujitsu <dot> com
>Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe
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