Chris:
I find this exchange very useful (and interesting). With respect to the
two paragraphs below, *my* opinion is that the two goals:
a)
"build real operational grids using OGSA based components"
and
b)
"produce crisp definitions that lead to implementations in the next
12-18 months"
are [or should be] semantically equivalent. However, clearly, not every
one sees things this way.
Clearly we should spend some time on these issues of
terminology.
But our main focus must be (I would assert) the question of how we
achieve (b)--what definitions can we reasonably produce in that time
frame, *that people will implement*? I emphasize the latter, because my
view is that the difficulty is not the supply side, it's the demand
side--we can produce specs quickly, but we need vendors who are prepared
to embrace standards.
We can talk more tomorrow.
Ian.
At 02:24 PM 8/16/2006 -0700, Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
I don't think it's an issue of web
services vs. not web services. It's an issue
of crisp definitions that lead to implementations in the next 12-18
months.
That's what I hear the board, and thus presumably the members, asking
for.
And I'll say it again: setting a goal to build real operational grids
using OGSA
based components is not a valuable strategic goal for OGF. Not that OGSA
is bad
... but OGF doesn't exist solely for OGSA. Statements along these lines
lead to
the impression that OGSA is a "boil the ocean"
solution.
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