When I think of OGSA-D I think that
a major focus of what data services provide is access to data (in a very
general sense of access) and your second sentence acknowledges this. Since
we care about access to data, the movement of data is another key. So,
in the kind of brief summary that you are writing, I would tend to change
the first sentence to say something more like "... which provide for
access to data on the grid." Obviously not a fully descriptive
phrase but I think that it comes closer than "distribution of data".
Allen Luniewski
IBM Information Management: Strategy
Grid/On Demand Strategy
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[acs-wg] [ogsa-d-wg] OGSA-D-WG
description for ACS specification:
This is being posted to the ACS and OGSA-D group for
inter-group communication purposes.
ACS needs to be aware of data services as they will impact the ACS specification
at some point in time.
The ACS specification has a non-normative section for describing relationships
with other groups/activities.
This is the proposed paragraph for your review - what do you think?
"The OGSA Data Working Group defines the data services which provide
for distribution of data on the grid. ACS can utilize protocols being
specified such as Byte-IO, GridFTP, and possibly Replication. ACS
provides an extension point for protocols which allow implementations to
specify which protocols are supported. The ACS team has reviewed
their briefings and draft documents with interest. Interaction with
the OGSA Data Working group is expected to increase during the development
of the next version of this specification."