[ogsa-wg] BES query

[Ian Foster]

I'm interested in that question too. As I've said on quite a few occasions, 
I like the EPR + ResolverEPR (as in the original WS-RenewableReferences) -- 
that is a nice simple mechanism. I don't understand why we can't have this 
in a separate specification.

Ian.


At 09:23 PM 8/29/2005 -0400, Tom Maguire wrote:
>So just to get some nomenclature correct.  By WS-Names we mean an EPR that 
>is profiled to
>contain both a ResolverEPR and an AbstractName.  So what do we call an EPR 
>which just
>contains a ResolverEPR?
>
>Tom
>
>Ian Foster wrote:
>
>>I believe that the opinion was expressed by some at the San Diego meeting 
>>(e.g., by Steve Tuecke) that WS-Names should NOT be mandated.
>>
>>It certainly defines a nice way of using EPRs that will be useful in some 
>>situations. But it surely can't be the case that we always want to 
>>mandate this particular set of extensions to EPRs. That requirement 
>>certainly doesn't jibe with how we use them in all cases, for example.
>>
>>Ian.
>>
>>
>>At 09:25 AM 8/29/2005 -0400, Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>>
>>>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 EPRs 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
>>
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Ian Foster                    www.mcs.anl.gov/~foster
Math & Computer Science Div.  Dept of Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory   The University of Chicago
Argonne, IL 60439, U.S.A.     Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A.
Tel: 630 252 4619             Fax: 630 252 1997
         Globus Alliance, www.globus.org