Today, Jason A. Smith wrote forth saying... > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 16:13, matt massie wrote: > > what we need is > > 1. a URL like way of expressing the data we want > > 2. replace the aggregation model with a delegation model. > > The only comment/request I have is to make this delegation mechanism > optional. Currently it seems that the AUTHORITY attribute to the GRID > tag is mandatory so that delegation is forced on you. I would prefer it > to be optional, so that if it is present you can assume that location > has all the detailed data/graphs and gmetad only needs to send/keep the > summary data/plots, but if it is not set, then the source gmetad will > publish all the details and the second gmetad will create its own copy > of everything.
will do. what i envision is that each data source can be specified as "collapsed" or "expanded" (like a directory folder). collapsed data sources would have the authority attribute whereas expanded source wouldn't need it since all details are sent. "collapsed" data sources would be expanded with you contact the delegate (authority). having real internal tree data structure will allow us to generate different data views dynamically. -matt
