Hi again! Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Remaining issues as I see them.
1: Are we correct in saying "OGSA-WG and its subgroups" or should we say "OGSA-WG and its affiliated groups"? To me, "subgroups" implies that we believe that there is a strong relationship there, when I think that the truth is closer to being a "confederation of the willing". This is one to check with Hiro. I agree, "affiliated groups" fits better. Maybe Hiro can also state his oppinion.
2: We do not want our milestones to imply that we may not start on our main deliverables until GGF15! :^) Best if we reworded that to say instead that we will have started on our major deliverables by then. I think this is an important topic and would like to have oppinions by others on the list as well. My oppinion is:
We now have to evaluate the material of GSA and build upon this to write our service description (*). For me, the service description is very important. The OGSA Roadmap document (*) states: "Service Description documents, which are written and maintained by the appropriate domain-expert working groups, describe the services in the area in natural language, listing the interfaces and operations defined by each service." So, this is basically the foundation upon which we will define the services. From my point of view, we should use the time until GGF15 to agree upon the service description. This might also involve to check whether we can satisfy all requirements from our own schedulers etc. The deliverables will then specify the services further. So, I think the service description has several functions: (1) Clarify how we expect the services behave. (2) Clarify the relation to other OGSA services, e.g. the Information Service. (3) Provides an instrument for us to clarify what we want to do. Once we have the service description, a lot of important work is already done. Basically, we are starting to work on the main deliverables, as we will be able to reuse the content. Formally, I don't think it makes sense to start with the main deliverables now. But, nevertheless, we should state more clearly what we expect the service description to be (maybe I am wrong with my understanding). I tried to add an additional scentence to the charter, please find it attached. Have a nice weekend, Mathias (*) links to the documents on gridforge: - Use-cases: https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewCategory.php?group_id=133&category_id=714 - Requirements document draft: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gsa-rg/document/GSA-Requirements/en/1 - OGSA Roadmap: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/draft-ggf-ogsa-roadmap...