[ggf-ogsa-sec-wg] FW: Request for Comments (PDF Version)

["Marty Humphrey" <humphrey@cs.virginia.edu>]

And I am forwarding this to the OGSA SEC WG for any comments....
Note that the document to which Ian and Magdalen refer can be found at:
http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/ogsa-wg/pdf00000.pdf


Marty Humphrey
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Virginia


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ogsa-wg@gridforum.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg@gridforum.org]
On Behalf Of Ian Foster
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:28 PM
To: ogsa-wg@gridforum.org
Subject: Fwd: Request for Comments (PDF Version)

I am forwarding these comments from Magdalen Leung, which make a lot of 
sense to me.

>Subject: Fwd: Request for Comments (PDF Version)
>To: foster@mcs.anl.gov
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>From: Magdalen Leung <cmleung@us.ibm.com>
>Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:47:52 -0400
>
>Ian, I have read your OGSA roadmap draft and I would like to share my
thoughts
>with you.
>
>I believe your draft covers a lot of bases and a lot of the right
>ingredients. I have also read "The Security Architecture for Open Grid
>Services" and "OGSA Security Roadmap".
>
>OGSA evolution is going to take a few steps before it is functionally
>complete. At the same time, we do not want to wait until all
architectures
>are finalized. I am struggling to understand how these new standards
and
>technologies can be materialized in a coordinated fashion with
incremental
>customer value.
>
>I like to suggest that the OGSA roadmap to provide a staged
architecture
>plan or steps so that any company can decide to support stage 1 or
stage 2
>or stage whatever in a timely fashion and at the same time to provide
>reasonable interoperability among different implementations of OGSA
>architectures. For example, the 25 specifications identified in the
OGSA
>Security Roadmap, what are the key specifications that would facilitate
a
>viable OGSA stage 1 delivery?
>
>Magdalen Leung
>zSeries Software Design, Poughkeepsie, NY
>  Phone:  8-295-6683 or 845-435-6683    Fax: 8-295-7029 or 845-435-7029
>
>  Email: cmleung@us.ibm.com