[ogsa-wg] RE: GRIDtoday Edition: Tony Hey: 'Challenging Times for GGF & Standards'

[Savas Parastatidis]

The argument that is being made is not that an implementation of WS-RF
cannot exist on .NET. WSRF.NET demonstrates that this is possible.

The argument is about whether support for WS-Addressing is all that is
required in order to interact with services built on top of WS-RF. I
believe this to be an oversimplification. Support for WS-Addressing is
absolutely required. However, it's not enough. The implementation of the
semantics of the ResourceProperties and Lifetime related messages have
to be provided. If they are not provided, a developer will end up
implementing them.

The analogy I usually use is this... The interaction with an HTTP server
requires TCP/IP. If you have socket-programming libraries you can
interact with the HTTP server. However, in the process you'll be
implementing a programming library for HTTP communications.

Regards,
--
Savas Parastatidis
http://savas.parastatidis.name
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org] On Behalf
Of
> Mark Morgan
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:10 PM
> To: daveb at nesc.ac.uk; gannon at cs.indiana.edu; foster at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: meder at mcs.anl.gov; ogsa-wg at gridforum.org; tony.hey at epsrc.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] RE: GRIDtoday Edition: Tony Hey: 'Challenging
Times
> for GGF & Standards'
> 
> Isn't WSRF.NET at the University of Virginia essentially proof of
this?
> 
> --
> Mark Morgan
> Research Scientist
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Virginia
> http://www.cs.virginia.edu
> mmm2a at virginia.edu
> (434) 982-2790
>