perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Maciej Glowiak wrote:
> Roman Lapacz napisał(a):
> > Nicolas Simar wrote:
> > > Definition of pS service
> > > -    Protocol Standard, Syntax (grammar, binary replica of message) 
> > > and Semantics (business logic).
> > > o    Include LS registration,
> >
> > LS registration is a very useful feature but should not be necessary 
> > to treat a service as a part of the perfSONAR. For example there 
> > could be perfsonar infrastructure deployed in a domain without LS.
>
> Yes, but then we don't need LS at all.

No, we need it. It's just a decision of the admin to deploy or not the LS.

> If we have been developing LS for such a long time we should agree 
> now, that all new services must have capability of registering to the 
> LS. You don't need to use it if you don't want to do it, but if 
> someone takes such a service and wants to run in his environment with 
> the LS, it must support LS registration.

I totally agree that the LS is very important service (one of the core 
services) but the perfsonar infrastructure may work without this 
service. So I'm not sure we can say that a service does not belong to 
the perfsonar if it  does not have the registration feature.

Roman