[Pgi-wg] Next teleconference: tomorrow, wednesday july 15th

[Laurence Field]

Hi Andrew,

With the diverse types of services that we deal with in our 
infrastructure, I can't imagine a situation where they have all 
implemented an interface using the same technology. This is due to many 
factors including but not limited to: legacy, time scales, priories, 
ideologies, trends, fads etc.
However, we have to somehow link all these services together, which is 
why I believe that a parallel system is the most flexible option. If an 
agreed information interface emerges, the exiting interfaces could be 
extended to provide this but the only advantage I see is aesthetics 
rather than function.

Having said that, one of the advantages that I would see by having this 
added to BES is that developers of the interface would also have to 
worry about providing the information, which would save us the trouble 
:)   We could then create a simple adaptor to extract the information 
and pull it into the parallel information system.
In order to achieve this, a simple interface such as an XML document 
would suffice. Examples of such documents can be found on the GLUE 2.0 
wiki page.

http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.glue-wg/wiki/GLUE2XMLSchema

Laurence

Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
> Laurence,
>   
> I agree completely. During the BES discussion we came to an impasse over
> this: some arguing that that we could use WS-RF resource properties ... and
> then have a single mechanism for all types of resources. Others, including
> but not limited to Microsoft, would have nothing to do with WS-RF. In the
> end to get consensus the WG decided on a separate function - very ugly. We
> in Genesis II support both the WS-RF mechanism and the OGSA-BES mechanism.
> The same thing by the way happened over notification, except in the end the
> WG basically punted.
>
> I personally think that the BES endpoint should provide a mechanism to get
> the information, but that the spec should be mute on how that information is
> aggregated or used.
>
> A
>