Ian, I want to answer these separately, so a few mails over the next few hours, as I should be pay attention in a meeting. On 20 Jan 2005, at 0:40, Ian Foster wrote:
As you know JSDL pretty well (certainly better than I, sorry to say), can you comment on whether the GT4 GRAM JDL (described at http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/development/3.9.4/execution/ wsgram/schemas/mjs_job_description.html) can be rendered in JSDL?
If the answer is yes, then I'd say first of all "good" and second "well that means we have work to do in terms of defining a standard vocabulary."
Later, I want to do a short summary of JSDL ant the same time and I still need to finish looking at JDL.
One more thought regarding your earlier email concerning scoping: you proposed that we take delegation off the table. However, one reason for delegating credentials is so that the job manager host can initiate staging commands.
This is a simpler answer. I would leave delegation off the scope of this group simply to separate concerns. Whatever the security mechanisms in place at the job management service, they should be composable with the job management interface. I know that some form of delegation is needed to manage the file staging, but a delegation service is not the only solution, so I am loathe to bind the two together is a specification. For example, the Unicore implementation would not require and delegation service. Lastly, if we need such a service, it should be done in the security area and be more widely applicable. -- Take care: Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com > Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE +44-208-606-4649 (Office) +44-208-606-4539 (Fax) +44-7768-807526 (Mobile)