GFD-R-P.101: Resource Namespace Service Specification. M. Pereira et al., via GFS-WG. Abstract: This document describes the specification of the Resource Namespace Service (RNS), which offers a simple standard way of mapping names to endpoints within a grid or distributed network. It functions as a Web Services registry that provides name-to-resource mapping. Names are mapped to endpoint references and are stored in a persistent namespace repository. RNS offers hierarchical rendering of human-oriented names, which makes resource mappings easily accessible and usable by human interface applications. It can be employed to manage the namespace of federated and virtualized data, services, or effectively any resource capable of being referenced in a grid/web environment. This document proposes a set of operations describing the port type, functions, and features of the Resource Namespace Service. Read this document here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor