Thanks Ian for your notes, I am OK to delete the list of project names from the first paragraph of section 8. However, I would like to keep following paragraphs in section 8 since OGSA software has critical role in OGSA as we described in Section 2 "OGSA process." I know this section is not exhaustive and also we don't have enough dialogue with some of these projects. But I would use this document as a tool to encourage them to implement OGSA and get feedbacks form them. Based on the definition in section 2.3, they can claim that their software is "OGSA implement," but cannot claim "OGSA conformance" or "OGSA compliance." Thanks, ---- Hiro Kishimoto Ian Foster wrote:
I'd recommend that we simply delete the list of projects, and say something about "various open source software provide ..."
The original text was intended to say something specific: that Globus provided a particularly high-quality and widely used implementation of many OGSA-relevant specifications and thus played a particularly important role in OGSA work. (This text was proposed by Mark Linesch, by the way, not by me.) Clearly, others didn't like to see Globus called out in this way, and so the single mention of Globus has grown into a list. Of course, once you have a list, it will be always be incomplete. Further, any inclusion in an OGSA roadmap implies some form of endorsement, and I don't think we have enough knowledge about all of the listed software to know whether they all provide robust implementations of OGSA-relevant specifications, as is implied. For both those reasons, I recommend that we delete the list.
At 04:02 PM 8/3/2005 +0900, Andreas Savva wrote:
- Add new projects (submitted text) and change the list of projects at the top of section 8 so that additions or deletions do not cause changes.
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