[ogsa-wg] BES query

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Tom's email bounced.
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Hiro Kishimoto

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:23:58 -0400
From: Tom Maguire <tom.maguire at suscom.net>
To: Ian Foster <foster at mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: Andrew Grimshaw <grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu>, ogsa-wg at ggf.org
Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] BES query

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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