[ogsa-wg] BES query

[Mark Morgan]

Personally, I view naming as an important part of the basic nature of a
Grid.  OGSA has already bought into the story that a 3-tiered naming
structure is an important part of a workable grid solution.  Given that
WS-Names represent the lower two levels of this hierarchy, it seems that
anything but full endorsement of WS-Names as the OGSA way of handling
resiliant, location transparent, names for grid resources would weaken the
story that OGSA has to tell.  In my personal opinion, I think it's very
important that OGSA endorse WS-Names as a core requirement for usable grid
resources.  Otherwise, various legitimate implementations of OGSA services
will provide varying levels of reliability and accessability which will make
programming grid applications very difficult.

-Mark 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:26 AM
> To: ogsa-wg at ggf.org
> Subject: [ogsa-wg] BES query
> 
> All,
> 
> In the BES working group call last week the issue of naming 
> came up. The current DRAFT specification calls for passing 
> WS-Names in and out of the various function calls. There was 
> the question as to whether EPR's is all that should be 
> specified. We thought this is an OGSA issue: mainly is OGSA 
> endorsing the use of WS-Names where appropriate. Clearly I 
> think we should. But this should be discussed.
> 
> Andrew
> 
>