perfsonar development work

[Michael Bischoff <>]

Krzysztof Jędrzejewski wrote:
> Antoine Delvaux pisze:
> > Well, from what I can understand of it (it's hard to find my way in 
> > the svn repo/source code), I'd say that Michael's proposition makes 
> > things less ambiguous:
> >
> > ls-discovery-api
> > ls-registration-api
> >
> >  
> > > And then a couple of questions to better understand:
> > > - How would would you like to proceed i.e. who does what?
> > > - Possible impact on any other development?
> > >     
> >
> > Good questions.  What are the services currently using this API?
> >   
> So let it be ls-discovery-api.
> I don't know anything about services using this API. Only PerfsonarUI 
> uses it I think.
>
> Regards
It is expected that services will use the api in the future. I'm also not
aware of any ps services currently using it. Likely use-case is that a
service will lookup topo-service for configuration of the service itself.
Other possible use-cases of the top of my head are:
- to find a lookup service to register themselves against :-)
(or some other form of auto configuration)
- to find cooperating services that contain information for drilling down
(though this might be something that could be handled in the client layer)
- to find other services that the services can use for 
collecting/processing
data.
etc.

As far as proceeding on that front - it is probobably something that needs
to get discussed face-to-face and initially prepared by a group of ppl. The
scope of this also extends beyond the European/java-ls-api effort.

as far as ls-registration-api part, that befalls the psbase2 effort and
improving loose coupling between parts of the psbase2 which afaik
is already a ongoing process.

Regards,
Michael