perfsonar development work

[Martin Swany <>]

Hi all,

> From the point of view of client developer, services using "whatever
> they like" doesn't solve the problem, but on the contrary.  The client
> has to know the semantics of those strings, regardless of whether they
> have been received in datum entries or in metadata.  See my  
> examples in
> previous mails. As I understood, Martin already agreed on this.

I do agree that there are many cases in which the client
needs to understand the units.  As I said, I'm concerned
about over-specifying things and making perfSONAR
difficult to extend.  But if one is using units that have been
previously used, then they need to use the agreed-upon
string.

best,
martin