Hi folks,
Please note that I am not suggesting that WS-RF (and WS-Transfer for that matter) is not useful in certain cases. Indeed, in the systems management area it may make sense to use them. However, what it is being proposed in the OGSA working group (if I understand correctly) is that WS-RF be used as the foundation for all high-level services.
I don't think that this is the case. In fact, I think that usually, really high-level services in OGSA will be Web services, while "lower level" stuff (e.g., resources and their systems management) will be modeled as resources (read: WSRF-based). Of course, there might be exceptions here and there. You can find more details on this on the CMM-WG document (just approved as GFD-45 today!), which is a "long" version of section 3.6 of the OGSA spec. You can find the CMM-WG document in: https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewCategory.php?group_id=107&category_id=612 Try sections 3.2 and 5.1. I found it quite interesting that the work on execution management interfaces is going the WSRF way, not the Web services way -- I was expecting the other way round. It seems that the entities they are modeling are quite "low-level", while I was expecting a "very high-level" job manager. (Wait a minute. Does this all mean that I and Savas agree? What's wrong here? ;-) See ya, Fred Maciel.