OGSA-DMI telecon minutes

Participants:
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Aleen Luniewski, IBM
Steven Newhouse, Microsoft
Ravi Madduri, ANL
Michel Drescher, Fujitsu

Agenda:
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1.       IPR Notice
2.       Previous Minutes and Action Review
3.       Agenda Bashing
4.       Current Document Review
5.       OGF21 slides
6.       AOB

New Action Items
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- Michel to have a final brush-up at his discretion
- Ravi to provide a profound proposal covering the "retry" and "multiple files" issues, particularly the interactions
- Michel to elaborate and write down his thoughts on how Data EPRs are minted and used
   -- To fold in Allens proposal

Proposed changes to the agenda
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- Discuss Allen's proposal to the interface
- Discuss Ravi's comments to the specifications
- Discuss the slides for OGF21

Discussing the slides for OGF21
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- Who will do the presentation?
- Should we do some sort of outreach to other WG?
- The group agrees that Michel will do the main presentation in the DMI session.
- The group agrees on reaching out to other important working groups:
   -- Ravi covers GFS
   -- Michel covers JSDL
   -- Steven covers HPCP
   -- Ravi presents at the Data Area session, subject to short-notice at OGF21

Discussing Ravi's comments on the latest spec draft
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- Ravi raised the issue of having "retry" as a capability of DMI
- While discussing the "retry" the discussion moved to whether a DEPR actually represents one single file or also can represent multiple files or even partial files.
- The group somewhat mixed up discussions on the "retry" issue and the "multiple file" transfer issue
- The group agrees to action Ravi for two proposals, for both the "retry" issue and "multiple files" issue
- Ravi did not get a clear understanding of the nature of the Source and Sink, i.e. how the DEPRs are minted and who does it.
- The group intensively discusses the issue how DEPRs are minted
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