Fred Maciel wrote:
Being sarcastic, on the letter "O", perhaps the GGF was truly Open around GGF6, when OGSA was just an architecture among many, nothing special. But the GFSG chose it as the "flagship architecture" of the GGF, stating at least a preference. Allowing multiple profiles without preferences moves things back in the direction of GGF6, which for some people is wonderful, and for others, disastrous. (Again, I'm being sarcastic, don't waste your time taking this too seriously).
Isn't it obvious? Flagships are there for the enemy to shoot at. Speaking seriously, I would be interested to see some kind of strawman alternative architecture to the current "blessed" one; the differences would be most instructive[*]. On the other hand, I can say for sure that I won't be putting any effort into developing such a thing in the short term (few months) and probably not in the medium term (few years) either. But should this be done by a working group...? Donal. [* I suspect that the full sweet spot of the blessed version isn't there in this other combination, but would be happy to be proved wrong. ]