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

[Andreas Savva]

Just curious:

I thought the WSRF etc is not lightweight or can't be used on 
very-small-factor devices argument was answered by the wsdm blackberry 
demo. Or am I missing something?

[Extracted from Fred's mail sometime back on the list.]
> - Here is the URLs for the WSDM demo on the blackberry.
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/11086/WSDMDemo.010805.ppt


Savas Parastatidis wrote:
> Dear Ian,
> 
	:
> I won't pretend to know of Microsoft's intentions. However, a difference
> that I personally see between the WS-RF/WS-Notification and WS-Transfer/
> /WS-Eventing/etc. camps is that the latter is much simpler and
> lightweight. Most importantly, the MS suite of specifications is not
> promoted as the uniform, underlying suite of common messaging behaviours
> for all high-level services as WS-RF seems to be. Instead it is some
> patterns that are available to be used where they are appropriate. Also,
> WS-Transfer is lightweight so it can be used in very-small-factor
> devices.
	:

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Andreas Savva
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd