[wg-all] New document published: ByteIO Specification 1.0

[Greg Newby]

This Draft Recommendation document has been published as GFD #087:

Title: ByteIO Specification 1.0

Author/editor: M. Morgan
 
Please visit this link to download it:
  http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final

Abstract: The ByteIO Specification is a description of a set of port
types that give users a concise, standard way of interacting with bulk
data sources and sinks in the grid.  The purpose of these port types
is to provide the means for treating such data resources as POSIX-like
files.  At the same time, clients will be able to leverage these port
types to provide users with a convenient way of interacting with these
grid resources.  The purpose of this specification is to address a
common case and common requirement in the grid community.  Other
applications may choose to provide more application specific
interfaces for accessing and modifying bulk data in their own resource
endpoints, however it is hoped that they will choose to additionally
support ByteIO as a means of providing a common interface to which
arbitrary clients can speak.
 
ByteIO is divided into two port types and each addresses a unique set
of use cases.  The first of these port types supports the notion that
a data resource is directly accessible and that clients can handle the
maintenance of any session state (such as file pointer, buffering,
caching, etc.).  The other port type presents a more stream-like
interface to clients and as such contains implicit session state.  In
this latter case data resources with this port type donât represent
that bulk data source/sink directly but rather represent the resource
of the open stream between the client and the data source/sink.

Thanks to the authors/editors for work on this document.
  -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor