perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Hi,

When we sent the hand over document along with templates, we had 
attached only one sample document. In attachment are two more sample 
documents.
* RRD MA Functional Specification
* RRD MA Interface Specification

These are for samples for functional specification template and 
Interface Specification Template. The two documents have 
cross-references (and we expect documents for all services to have 
cross-references as well).

The documents are for illustrative purposes only at the moment. So, you 
might notice that the Interface specification is complete only for one 
functionality. Please use this as a guide and we suggest that extra 
focus be given to the sections that describe the rnc (Relax NG Compact) 
schema explanation and also that examples be given for all cases.

The rnc schemas themselves: The schemas definitions are in rnc. Each 
schema definitions holds good for a particular message accepted by the 
service (and not all messages). Schemas have to be written for both 
requests and replies. I wasn't very familiar with RNCs but to be honest, 
it didn't take me much time to use them as they are so simple. I made 
use of 'jing' to validate the schema syntax. 'trang' helps in 
conversions to xsd, etc. If you need any help with these, please feel 
free to contact me (or Jason, Martin). A tutorial for rnc can be found 
here: http://relaxng.org/compact-tutorial-20030326.html

Please NOTE: The audience for these schemas will be the testing team and 
the development teams working with analysis tools. So, please try to 
write up schemas which are as accurate as possible. This way, there is 
less room for erroneous requests and its easier for them to use our 
services.

Feel free to ask us any questions that you might have.

Regards,
Loukik.

Attachment: RRD MA Interface Specification 1.1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Attachment: RRD MA Functional Specification 1.2.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document