[Pgi-wg] Sec: Agreement on WS-Naming (ref by strawman)

[Moreno Marzolla]

m.riedel at fz-juelich.de wrote:
[...]
> # (A) Which middleware platform is adopting it currently and has
> precise plans to adopt it in the near future. We can list for now
> GENESIS-II adopting it while I know that UNICORE does not and has no
> precise plans for it now - what about others like gLite, ARC, or
> NAREGI?

Hi all,

as far as I know, iEPRs are not currently used in gLite (for sure they 
are not currently used in the job management components). I am aware of 
no specific short-to-medium term plans to support them.

Nevertheless, I think that Secure Addressing is a nice solution to the 
problem of advertising the security profile adopted by an endpoint. As 
Aleksandr correctly points out, if EPRs are not going to be used as 
complete replacements of URIs (in which case major modifications to most 
of middleware components would be required, and that would be very 
problematic), I support the idea of using a limited form of EPRs. As I 
explained in an earlier mail, "limited" here means that the PGI profile 
shall precisely described in a self-contained way the minimum set of EPR 
elements which must be supported by conforming inplementations.

Moreno.

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