[UR-WG] how to publish services information

[Andrea Cristofori]

Dear all,

In reference to the discussion during our last phone meeting I found 
that GLUE seems not to inforce any standar name. But I also found a 
rather document (from 2009. You can find it attached to this email) that 
describe the name usage in WLCG. In particular, concerning the storage:

    * ImplementationName MUST be published. The format is defined by the
      implementations, but the names MUST NOT clash. In particular, for
      WLCG storage services the names to be used are: CASTOR, DPM,
      StoRM, dCache, BeStMan, xrootd.

    * ImplementationVersion MUST be published. The format is defined by
      the implementations.


For OS names there are others directives here (I don not think we need 
it but while I was looking around for info I found it):

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations/HOWTO05

For site names:

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations/HOWTO05

Furthermore my understanding is that, at least in EMI, the decision is 
just to set the EMI release version. Based on that it should be then 
possible to identify the version of the specific middleware.

Cheers,
Andrea

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