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

[Steven Newhouse]

> The idea of inventing "yet an other abstraction layer" doesn't sound 
> very productive.

Neither does the idea of re-writing my application code interface when
WS-RF 2.0 comes out, or something else gets adopted by another
community, or...

Just imagine where the parallel computing world would still be if we
where still exposed to machine specific networking stacks instead of
MPI? Layers of abstraction are (within reason) good.

Also you are seeing caution in the UK. Remember OGSI...? The UK put in
considerable effort to adopt the 'betamax' of grid web service. Are we
now being offered VHS grid web services? Or will there be another
Betamax type revision?

I'm finding some of the comments in this thread (not Frank's) are bit
worrying. Should dissenters really be given a 'good talking to' until
they come round to the WS-RF point of view? Wow... roll on GGF!

Steven
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