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[mailto:glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Viljoen, MJ (Matthew) said: Usecase 5.4 Service Downtime. Is this a functional requirement for downtime information to be made available directly from resources, i.e. not via a separate component such as the GOCDB?
Glue per se doesn't have any requirements on what people actually publish, or where the information comes from. However, it may have some implications for how the schema implementations are defined. When we discussed this my comment was that EGEE/LCG probably wouldn't publish this at all, because as you say we use the GOCDB. However, if we ever did publish it it would probably be done by having a single publisher on the GOCDB rather than having each resource publish their own downtimes, and we should therefore ensure that the information structure is free-standing, linked by the service ID, rather than being embedded in the service information. Of course that doesn't preclude services from publishing their own downtimes if that's more convenient. Stephen