[ogsa-hpcp-wg] Minutes for OGSA HPC Profile telecon (Aug 18 2006)

[Christopher Smith]

Hi all,

Sorry for my delay ... I'll be applying Donal's changes in the HPC Profile
Application extension document today. I'll also try to address any further
comments that came up in later email threads.

-- Chris



On 21/8/06 06:14, "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows at manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> humphrey at cs.virginia.edu wrote:
>> OGSA HPC Profile Minutes ­ Fri Aug 18 2006
> [...]
>>         AI-HPCP-0818a: Donal Fellow to review HPC Profile Application.
>> Specifically to ensure that normative text use is correct. Also, adding
>> normative text. Hopefully done before the next JSDL call on Wed.
> 
> As promised, I've reviewed the HPC Profile Application extension
> document and applied a few changes (though fewer than I originally
> thought). I've uploaded a change-tracked version to GridForge (in the
> JSDL documentation tree) which has my changes in it together with
> comments detailing a few issues that I think could do with addressing
> before it goes final. (Some comments just describe reasoning behind one
> or two of the changes I've made though.)
> 
> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/viewDocument/projects.jsdl-wg/docman.
> root.working_drafts/doc13749
> 
> The main thing of note I suppose is that I've beefed up the Security
> Considerations to state that it is important that the UserName element
> not be allowed to do end-runs around security. But that needs checking
> by someone else to ensure that I've not gone too far and required that
> implementations *have* a security context that could allow deduction of
> what username to use. That's just the sane thing to do... :-)
> 
> Cc:ing the JSDL WG so that they can get a chance to review the doc (plus
> my comments) too.
> 
> Donal.
>