Hiro Kishimoto wrote:
Per Felix's request, I've upload revised draft onto the GridForge. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14692 We will discuss it at Thursday's call.
Just so I remember, here are the things that occur to me on reading the summary and going over the rest of the document quickly: Query Interface standardization is a good thing, but there will need to be a standard basic set of information that can be counted on to be there for this to be really useful (not just a common model, but a realistic possibility of making a query to an arbitrary instance and getting a result). Registry standardization is again a good thing, but again there needs to be some kind of profile to describe what endpoints go in and how they are looked up (by name, by property?) Information Provider standardization is likely to be very hard, and probably coupled to the idea of a "standard middleware platform". Since a registry is really about the query interface anyway (I'm much less certain about standardization of mechanisms for registry updating) I'm left wondering if we can reuse concepts between the first two items and avoid the third at least for now. Donal.