[wg-all] New OGF document: GFD-R-P.101: Resource Namespace Service Specification

[Greg Newby]

GFD-R-P.101: Resource Namespace Service Specification.  M. Pereira et
al., via GFS-WG.
 
Abstract: This document describes the specification of the Resource
Namespace Service (RNS), which offers a simple standard way of mapping
names to endpoints within a grid or distributed network.  It functions
as a Web Services registry that provides name-to-resource mapping.
Names are mapped to endpoint references and are stored in a persistent
namespace repository.  RNS offers hierarchical rendering of
human-oriented names, which makes resource mappings easily accessible
and usable by human interface applications.  It can be employed to
manage the namespace of federated and virtualized data, services, or
effectively any resource capable of being referenced in a grid/web
environment.  This document proposes a set of operations describing
the port type, functions, and features of the Resource Namespace
Service.

Read this document here:
  http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final


  -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor