[ogsa-hpcp-wg] Proposed rephrasing of the restriction on BES vector operations in the HPC Profile

[Michel Drescher]

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Marvin, all,

Marvin Theimer wrote:
| [...]
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| Reworded paragraph:
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| The BES GetActivitiesStatus, TerminateActivities, and GetJSDLDocuments
| operations include a vector input parameter that specifies the set of
| activities that the operation should be applied to. A Compliant system
| MUST be prepared to support a vector length of 1.  A Compliant system
| SHOULD support input vector lengths greater than 1 but MAY return a
| Not_Supported fault in response to input vector lengths greater than 1.

This sounds good. However, on the phone conference on Friday, we had a a
longer discussion on the return vector sizes.

Should we emphasize that if a compliant service supports input vectors
longer than 1 that this service must return vectors of the same length
as the input vector?

Leaving this out creates a gut feeling of "something's missing here" for me.

Cheers,
Michel

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