Hi James, James Casey wrote:

Hi Michel, Ravi,

This is just to give you an update on our participation in the OGSA-DMI group. Due to workload here, and the direction that the specification is going towards WSRF-based services, we don't see that we'll be able to provide an implementation of the specification in the forseeable future.

This is most unfortunate to hear, and I am really sorry to loose the expertise of your team (including you). While I can fully understand the workload issue, I am nonetheless hopeful that we can resolve the misunderstanding regarding WSRF based DMI services. I certainly admit that momentarily the Functional Specification incorporates WSRF-centric paragraphs. This is clearly not desirable and those paragraphs need to be cleaned up and moved to the WSRF Rendering document. OGSA-DMI is still strongly committed not to favour one rendering over the other. The simple reason for a tainted Functional Specification is that I copied this text from a document I wrote for the NextGRID project, which in deed uses the WSRF. So I hope that you guys rethink your decision, and return and help us cleaning up the spec from the WSRF artifacts: Each helping hand is greatly welcome!

Due to this, we're going to scale back our participation in OGSA-DMI, in particular, we won't have a regular representative at the weekly meetings and OGF meetings. We'll keep in touch on the mailing list, and continue to review the document.

Constant document review is a very valuable effort and contribution, and I am grateful for that. Currently, OGSA-DMI focuses on the Functional Specification, working its way through chapter by chapter. At the moment, we are working in the chapters up to the Information Model (ch. 4), knowing that the other chapters need rework and clean up, too.

I hope that in the future, after LHC startup, we can participate more actively again in the group.

And I hope so, too. I would like to, if possible, talk to you guys further and in more detail in Manchester, as I believe that I will see one or the other through EGEEUG. Cheers, Michel