Hi Jon On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Jon Kerr Nilsen wrote:
Just to confirm that EMI is indeed interested in having a usable definition of a storage accounting record before January...
The EMI data group is currently in the process of collecting requirements from user communities and storage providers, so not much input from us yet, but I'm certainly hoping for overlap between OGF and EMI work on this topic.
Given the short timespand of getting a record definition ready, I would strongly urge towards getting a rudementary format ready very fast and then iterating over the format multiple times (as requirements get in and showing the formats to the interested parties to see if it can fulfill their requirements). If you wait to start defining the format until requirements have been collected there will be very little time to work with the record format. Best regards, Henrik Software Developer, Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at ndgf.org> Nordic Data Grid Facility. WWW: www.ndgf.org