On Mar 21, Toshiyuki Nakata loaded a tape reading:
Thank you very much for the announcement. I'll be atttending but would have to leave early (7:40..) I can supplement what Wolfgang wrote in the minutes of GGF13, but most of it's already there so not much to add.
The other big issue would be the OGSA-BES and EMS Best Regards Toshi
My impression is that it is an uphill battle to convince the OGSA-BES group to consider seriously using WS-Agreement, while they all seem clear on the idea of using JSDL. I think this is due to several facts: 1) They are on an aggressive schedule and so have some conservatism. 2) There are some preconcieved notions of what BES should be that look more like GRAM or other job-specific interfaces. 3) There was a bit of the lingering anti-wsrf sentiment floating around Seoul. 4) BES is supposed to fit EMS, and it is not clear EMS really has an understanding where WS-Agreement could fit. 5) Most groups are unclear on how we intend WS-Agreement to be used, not really seeing the "generalized GRAM/GARA" history and perhaps being confused by all the generic agreement, SLA, etc. terminology into thinking it has to be a heavyweight process involving human administrators. I think these last issues are the biggest concern for GRAAP-WG besides, obviously, getting the technical issues ironed out. We need to figure out how to market all these nifty ideas or we run the risk of producing a specification that will gather dust on the shelf. karl -- Karl Czajkowski karlcz@univa.com