[ogsa-wg] Resignation as Chair of OGSA-RSS

[Mathias Dalheimer]

Hi all,

during the preparation of the sessions for Tokyo this week, I noticed  
that I didn't contribute to OGSA-RSS in the last few months. Thinking  
about the reasons, I discovered two of them: I am sure this is true  
for all of us, but my time available for GGF is very limited. Due to  
other commitments in the last months, I wasn't able to spent more  
time on OGSA-RSS.

The more important reason is that my work has changed in the last  
months. OGSA-RSS is going to define a scheduling interface which will  
be applicable to most grid schedulers. The interaction with an RSS- 
compliant consists of a simple request-response scheme, which is a  
sensible choice because of the interoperability such a scheme  
facilitates.

My current work focus lies in an area where such a scheme is too  
simple. I think of a scheduler more in the sense of an agreement- 
finding and monitoring engine, which is a highly specialized view of  
the area. I think it is very hard to standardize more than the data  
formats, e.g. how to describe jobs, in this scenario.

This is different from my starting point a year ago, when a mapping  
of my work to the OGSA-RSS seemed easy. I value the GGF as a place to  
meet people and exchange ideas, and I will continue to visit future  
GGFs for this. But I will resign as cochair of OGSA-RSS after GGF17.  
I hope you understand that I do not criticize the standardization  
efforts in GGF as a whole - in many other scenarios, the  
standardization has a lot of benefits.

See you in Tokyo for good discussions,
Mathias

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Dipl.-Wirtsch. Ing. (Inform.) Mathias Dalheimer
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWM)
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
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