[ogsa-wg] Materials for tomorrows call

[Steven Newhouse]

Andrew,

 > By the way we were NOT proposing the XML stuff we sent as a "standard" -
 > rather a sketch of the level of detail we might want to address.

Ahh. That was not clear to me from the email and slide deck.

> The question
> before us is - 1) adopt something existing, or 2) gather best practices and
> generate some sort of simple least common denominator a la JSDL, or 3) try
> and design by committee a complete package.
> 
> I personally think (2) is the best choice :-).

Considering there is a whole lot of existing tooling around 1 I'd like 
to see where these solutions fail - and if extension mechanisms can 
correct these failures - before even going down 2.

But clearly the way to do these is to define the common use cases - be 
they simple workflow or the more complicated co-scheduling of coupled 
applications that Donal proposes.

Steven
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