Ecogrid Conference call, Jan 15, 2004
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Present: Bing, Jing, Matt, Raja, Rod, Bertram, Peter, Robin

1) Status of WSDL:

  Query Level one complete
  Query Level two wirtten, needs review, feedback, and implementation
  Bertram: is WSDL enough to query this system
         : reply: yes, as long as security is satisfied
   Bing + Raja: need Cert management and non-cert based access
   Outstanding issues:
      Does GET interface need source param + dest param?
      Must people actually use GridFTP for the Get intf?  Is that protocol reqd?

2) Wrapper implementation status and issues (Metacat/SRB/DiGIR/Xanthoria/GridFTP) (Jing, Bing, Rod, Peter)
    Bing: still working on GET
    Jing: working for level1 query
    Rod:  close to query wrapping work

3) Client development: library, Kepler integration, need OGSA client? (Jing)
    Kepler intfc first.
    Need web based clients, will do this after the kepler client is complete
    Issue: Jing says client must install and run a GridFTP server to just
           do a GET operation on another server.  Others agreed this was too
           onerous and should be reworked so that clients can connect to a
           GridFTP server without listening on a port themselves.  This will
           require some research into the GridFTP api and how globus-url-copy
           works, etc.  Jing, Bing, and Matt will work this out and report 
           back to seek-dev.
4) Testing framework status update (Rod)
    Wiil do it, lower priority than DiGIR implementation
    Needed to be sure metacta/srb/digir/xanthoria are all behaving the same
    when hit with a query agains a known data source
5) Registry & CA status (Matt)
   Registry metadata:
     a) coverage, with # records for that extent
     b) metadata/data type supported for queries (e.g., EML, darwin core, etc)
   CA: distributed, hierarchical CA is OK, needs to be implemented
6) Production deployment and release dates (Matt)
    1) Start w/ 4 nodes for initial production system (KNB,DiGIR,SRBLTER,Xanthoria GARP layers)
    2) Later open up for additional registration of nodes
    3) need data preparation steps, hopefully from SMS group
    4) try to get KNB and DiGIR and SRB nodes up by BEAM meeting
7) Future directions 
    reasss overall ecogrid tasks, whether to reprioritize people to other
    SEEK tasks such as Kepler