Dave,

A very good question. We are working on just this problem at uva – but think a broader discussion is in order.

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From: ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:41 PM
To: ogsa-wg
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Subject: [ogsa-wg] Service creation in OGSA?

 

Dear OGSA WG,

 

I have an action from the OGSA Dqta WG to ask you about service creation.  When creating services in OGSA, how does the client specify the following properties:


- Lifetime of Service
- (Storage) Size
- Default QoS requirements
- Default (security) policies
- Service Location (on which Server say)
- Provisioning

 

Do you have a common pattern for service creation, or common definitions of the above items?

 

Currently we are assuming the existence of factory services that can create shorter-term services.  E.g. in data transport, the long-lived service will create a short-lived service that manages the actual data transfer.  Clients will send control messages to the shorter-lived service.

 

This seems similar to the pattern originally encoded in OGSI.  Is it still the OGSA-approved way to manage service creation?

 

Best wishes,

 

Dave Berry

Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development

National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street

Edinburgh, EH8 9AA                  +44 131 651 4039