[sn-cg] where to fit into OGF standards

[Yoder, Alan]

The stuff we're trying to put together now doesn't
have anything to do with anything that OGF has
done, to my knowledge.  Take a look at the attached
doc and see if you know about something that I don't.

I'd like to steer away from ByteIO, personally.  We
should work on leveraging the ability of storage
systems to do direct transfers.  To that end, a 
rework of GridFTP in ANSI C would be very useful.
The present implementation in Globus requires one
to install most of the known universe before using it.

Alan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kantarjiev [mailto:chris.kantarjiev at oracle.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: sn-cg at ogf.org
> Subject: [sn-cg] where to fit into OGF standards
> 
> I think we've all been struggling to understand how what 
> we're trying to demo 
> should fit with the rest of the OGF stuff, especially OGSA. I 
> know I have. 
> During the OGSA F2F last week, I had some insight. Fred, 
> please feel free to 
> tell me how wrong I am.
> 
> I've been thinking that we need to wait for the OGSA-DATA 
> folks to get their act 
> together and that that could take forever and they're going 
> to come up with 
> something unapproachable anyway... but I now think that's just wrong.
> 
> We're talking about storage, not data. We don't need a model 
> beyond ByteIO, at 
> least for access. For starters, we should be building 
> something that provides a 
> ByteIO interface (an EPR) for reading/writing, and figure out 
> how to interact 
> with JSDL to allow it to describe the required data set such that the 
> provisioning piece that Alan wants to build (and will somehow 
> fit into the 
> rubrick of the Reference Model) can do the appropriate 
> provisioning under the 
> covers and return the above-mentioned EPR for program access.
> 
> If we can do this, or even just present our plans in these 
> terms, I think we'll 
> get the attention of a lot of the folks in OGF who currently 
> don't understand 
> what storage networking is all about ... and get a jump on 
> the "data grid" 
> mindset that may or may not exist.
> 
> Please discuss :-)
> 
> Best,
> chris
> 
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