Hi Fred, Hi all! Donal K. Fellows wrote:

Fred Maciel wrote:

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First of all, sorry for the cross-posting -- this subject involves all three WGs. Since GGF14 there have been a lot of discussions on where resource modeling fits -- BES considered it out of scope but Andrew thinks it's not totally out; RSS is discussing whether it's in scope; and this was discussed in the OGSA-WG also. So, let's discuss this in the Resource Modeling design team teleconference (which is, in fact, the place to discuss this).

Alas, the timing of the telecon is consistently impossible for me for family reasons, and I'm pretty certain that Soonwook Hwang can't make them either. (I'm not sure about Mathias Dalheimer.) I will be in the call tomorrow. I cannot make this nights OGSA-WG call.

However, so far we've discussed this within the RSS group by email and I think we feel that from the point-of-view of the RSS, we will not be saying very much at this stage. We do not wish to say that services [snip] We had an email discussion on the OGSA-RSS-BOF mailing list. You can see our argumentation in the archive:

http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/ogsa-rss-bof/2005/07/msg00008.htm... (and several follow-ups) To sum it up, we think it is an important discussion. It is out of scope for us, but we need to have an advanced resource model, especially - as Donal pointed out - when we want to deal with different user preferences etc. At the moment, I have the feeling that OGSA-RSS should focus on a more basic model in order to bootstrap its work. Therefore, the attributes in JSDL are our starting point. Of course, we will contribute our requirements when we identified them. -Mathias