Minutes of the OGSA Data WG telcon, 5th January 2007

1) Early discussion:
 
Roll call:
        Dave Berry, NeSC (Note Taker)
        Allen Luniewski, IBM
	Mike Behrens, R2AD
	Chris Jordan, SDSC

           
Minutes from December 20th call were approved. 
 

2) Action report

Completed actions

- Allen to merge latest version from Mario and put on GridForge, excluding security changes.
- Stephen to put new version of scenarios document on GridForge
- Allen to reorganise documents on GridForge
- Stephen to recheck/update scenarios document following F2F discussions

New actions

- Allen to accept all current changes and produce a new clean version of the architecture document.  Dave to review.
- Allen and Dave to review schedule.


Ongoing actions:

- Dave & Allen to comment on Data Access section of Architecture document
- Allen to add some suggested properties to the Data Transfer chapter of the Architecture document
- Allen to add a note saying that the create data transfer operation should check that there is sufficient space on the sink and possibly request more if possible.
- Mario to flesh out discussion of structured and unstructured data access in the new section 7 and to rewrite the appendix to show the mapping.
- Chris to send out second draft of GFS scenario.
- Dave to create or reuse scenario slides for main OGSA slide set.
- Dave to draft metadata catalog scenario & services (cf. SRB)


Sections in architecture document to be edited (plus appropriate bits to be put in appendix 3):
	Data Access – DAIS - Mario
	Data Access – ByteIO - Mario
	Cache Services – Dave
	Metadata Catalogues – Dave
 	Appendix 1 listing specs – already done?
	Appendix 2 summary of general interfaces – to be completed in final draft?
	Appendix 3 mappings to specs – to be completed in final draft?

- What about asynchronous operations and aborting requests? (Dave) (Suspend/Resume/Abort Request)


3) Progress Report.

Dave has revised the overview and data description sections.  Allen has incorporated all changes into the main document.

Allen to accept all current changes and produce a new clean version of the document.  Dave to review.


4) DONM.

Friday, 12th January.