[RUS-WG] [UR-WG] OGF20 Session recommendations

Gilbert Netzer noname at pdc.kth.se
Fri May 4 09:29:14 CDT 2007


Hi Rosario, hi Xiaoyu and Everyone,

I am chopping up this email into smaller bits and pieces to allow for an 
easier discussion about different subjects, I hope you don't mind.

Rosario Michael Piro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Xiaoyu Chen wrote:
>> Hello, Gilbert and Everyone,
>>  
>> .... Cutted here
>>           2). XPath Expression
>>                XPath is a good candidate anchor of strucutural documents, like XML. In the context of RUS, xpath stament is mainly used for query operations.
>>                (e.g. RUS:extractUsageRecords). In both specification (current and proposal), extraction of usage records returns only whole URs, which results in both cons and pros. 
>>                cons: A large document set returned to client (network-intensive and risks in session timeout for service as well as low performance).
>>                pros. easy to be implemented.
>>  
>>                The two suggestions proposed in the slide are basically contradictary each other. But still is good to be put forward for discussion.
> 
> Yes, they are. We should discuss and decide what is the better approach. 
> Hopefully we can come to a conclusion at this OGF.

That was my idea too, we should come to a decision at OGF so that we can 
make progress.

Cheers
Gilbert


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