[saga-rg] Revised SAGA-RG charter

[Tom Goodale]

Hi Steven,

thanks for the comments.

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Steven Newhouse wrote:

>>     Although this example is simplified, it illustrates the motivation
>>     for our work. The APIs specified by this RG will deliver a similar
>
> The RG is not specifying APIs IMHO. Suggest you use, developed or
> identified instead.

Good point.

>>     The group will lower the barrier for application developers to
>>     make use of the grid by providing a small, consistent API for the
>>     operations of interest, the Simple API for Grid Applications
>>     (SAGA).
>
> I'd suggest cutting the previous paragraph. This is the role of the
> spawned WGs. The RG is the coordinating activity which comes across well
> elsewhere.

Ok, cut.

> Change to: The design teams will
>
>>         - solicit related application use cases
>>         - issue an informal use case document
>>         - issue and informal requirement document
>
> Typo:     - issue an informal requirement document
>
> Question: Do you mean informal or informational? Several of the OGSA
> design teams have captured their work in informational documents. This
> may be a good idea?

I think we did mean an informal document here, but it might be good to 
make it an informational document.

>>     * Informational Document:
>>        "SAGA compatability with other Grid specifications"
> See my earlier comments - "SAGA use of other Grid specifications"
>>         This document will survey the compatability of SAGA
>>         reference implementations with underlying models of
>>         grid-middleware including, but not confined to OGSA.

Ok, I've renamed this.

Cheers,

Tom