Agenda for GWS-WG sessions at Baltimore Interop meeting

This is the agenda for the GWS sessions at the Baltimore Interop.

Session 1: Current Standards

WGPS 2: Mon 27 Oct 15:30 - 17:00 ST-Aud

We will review the status of the current standards: VOSpace, UWS, Credential Delegation, VOSI, WS Basic Profile

Links:

• VOSpace v1.14
• UWS v0.5
• WS Basic Profile v1.0
• VOSI v1.00
• VOSI Logging?

Session 2: REST and beyond

WGPS 3: Tues 28 Oct 08:30 - 10:00 ST-Aud

We will discuss development of the REST Profile document, VOSpace 2.0 (REST i/f) and other REST matters

Links:

• REST Profile document

Session 3: Authorization

WGPS 6: Wed 29 Oct 08:30 - 10:00 B462

We will discuss how the IVOA should tackle authorization - granting permission to someone to do something to a resource. Should we have project-level authorization services or is a service-level approach a better idea? What about IVOA user profiles and communities?

Links:

• Access Control Interface v0.1
• Security Facade

Session 4: Web Services

WGPS 7: Wed 29 Oct 10:30 - 12:00 B462

We will discuss whether GWS should defining versions of IVOA data representation standards (VOTable, STC) that work with SOAP toolkits? Should we be advocating a set of toolkits that we know to work? Should we be pressurizing for a particular approach to web services that does not require anything more that the specification of an XML document as being passed between the client and the service?

Session 5: Joint with DAL and Registry WGs

WGPS 10: Thurs 30 Oct 13:30 - 15:00 ST-Aud

We will be reviewing areas of common concern with the DAL and Registry WGs: VOSI, VOSpace, etc.

Links:

• VOSI v1.00