perfsonar development work

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Martin Swany написа:
> 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.
>
Under specifying might lead to heuristic solutions or wrong assumptions
in clients, therefore I would prefer over specification rather than
under specification, especially in a multi domain setting.
Will be good if we could minimize the need of semantic interpretation
and rely only on schema syntax, but not sure if this is possible.

Regards,
Nina
> best,
> martin

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