[ogsa-naming-wg] [gfs-wg] Minutes of 8/5,6 GFS-WG Conference call

[Osamu Tatebe]

Hi all,

Here is minutes of the last conference call.

Thanks,
Osamu

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GFS-WG conference call
Friday, Aug 5, 2005
4:30pm to 5:30pm (PDT)

Note taker: Osamu Tatebe (AIST)

Participants
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Manuel Pereira
Ted Anderson
Osamu Tatebe

Agenda
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Introduction & agenda bushing    ( 5min)
Change from 8th to 9th revision  ( 5min)
Full path vs absolute path       (20min)
Other issues                     (10min)

Meeting
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* Change from 8th to 9th revision
  https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gfs-wg/document/RNS-Proposed_Final_Draft-v1.9/en/9

 - make XML namespace in WSDL consistent with the specification
   (reflecting Takuya Ishibashi's comment)

 - modify the last part of the introduction section caused by removing
   the appendix of Grid File System Profile.

 - 'absolute path' in the second table in Section 1.3.3.1 "move", is
   changed to 'full path'.

* Full path vs absolute path

 - In Section 2.2.1.1 "Referral Messages", the first sentence states
   that "all service operations [MUST] accommodate the use of absolute
   pathnames," although all input to the service interface is now a
   full path.

 - need to accept both a full path and an absolute path for all input
   to the service.  How to differenciate these two?

 - An absolute path starts with '/', and a full path does not start
   with '/'.

* Other issues

 - Can '.' and '..' be specified as a 'Name'?

  -> Yes.  At least, RNS does not need such a restriction.  

  FYI: NFS version 4 assigns no special semantics to the names "." and
       "..".  The LOOKUPP operator must be used to lookup a parent
       directory.

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Osamu Tatebe, Ph.D.   Tel: +81-29-861-5844  FAX: +81-29-862-6601
Grid Technology Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058568 JAPAN
E-mail: o.tatebe at aist.go.jp     http://phase.hpcc.jp/people/tatebe/