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To: Heidi Picher Dempsey <hdempsey@bbn.com>, Henry Yeh <hyeh@bbn.com>
From: John Wroclawski <jtw@isi.edu>
Subject: TIED GENIAPI document posted
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Hi,

Last friday we posted a document called

"Preliminary Review of the GENIAPI as Control Framework 
Interoperability Architecture and TIED Federation Plug-In Candidate"

to the GENI wiki at 
http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/TIED/TIED_GENIAPI_v1.2.pdf
and linked from http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/TIED

This is TIED milestone S2.d "Preliminary design document for 
Unified/SFA (GENIAPI) plugin"

We're sorry that this is a little bit late (it was due August 1). 
Quite a lot of the analysis in this document is based on GENIAPI and 
SFA2 material that was first available at GEC8 and on conversations 
with several folks there and afterword. It took us a bit of time to 
synthesize all of that into one place..

We think this document raises some interesting issues about the 
current state of GENIAPI evolution, and points out at least one 
possible confusion that may exist across different people's views of 
that work and the SFA. Hopefully, it also describes some useful next 
steps to encourage interoperability.  We're going to try to kick off 
some discussion of all this in the control framework WG in the near 
future.  As a first step, we've sent a direct heads-up about the 
document to involved BBN folks - Aaron Helsinger, Tom Mitchell, and 
Aaron Falk - to solicit comments. We'll fire off a note to the WG 
list in the next couple of days.

Cheers
John