Salvatore Pinto [mailto:salvatore.pinto@egi.eu] said:
The underlying physical storage may be shared by different types of objects, while the endpoints usually are dedicated to a particular object type (Grid Endpoints usually serve files and streams, EBS is served via OCCI and generic objects via CDMI), so I tough it was better to place it in the Endpoint.
To the extent that the type is implicit in the protocol, e.g. SRM = file, you don't necessarily need an extra attribute at all, and you also have the Capability attribute for things which are relatively generic - we already have data.access.flatfiles for example. Also in the Share we have an AccessMode attribute - for which I think we don't actually have a use at the moment! Stephen -- Scanned by iCritical.