Andrew Grimshaw (as channeled by AS) wrote:
He wondered if workflow was the best place for OGSA to spend its efforts? Security was mentioned.
In response to this, I'd like to point out that the set of people willing to work on workflows and the set working on security are not the same (e.g. I don't personally want to work on security standardization!) so saying that we should drop dealing with one in favour of the other isn't really going to work.
They’re interested in whatever we do with workflow, but not in a burning sort of way.
I suspect that the most valuable thing at the workflow level would be if we had some common way of describing workflows in a way that is relevant for grids. I suspect that the best way of couching this is to ask "what is the best way of describing an abstract workflow to a workflow enactment engine", such that something like JSDL documents form components of the workflow request. While a BPEL profile could be used for this, I suspect that it's not at the right level; too much is about the messages sent to the services, and not enough is about the activities triggered in response to said messages. Donal (probably not explaining this right).