Infrastructure Area

Objectives

The general objectives for EMI are outlined in the Description of Work (DOW). Specific technical objects have been extracted from the DOW and have been augmented with the requirements from EGI. Technical Development Plan gives an overview of these objectives. Detailed descriptions of the objectives relevant to the Infrastructure Area can be found in the Infrastructure Area Work Plan and Status Report.

Main Tasks

1. Accounting Protocol Specification
2. EMIR Integration

Product Teams

The following table is the list of PTs in the Infrastructure Area as defined in the Technical Development Plan.

Name	Leader	Products	Main Areas
ARC LDAP-based Infosys	Mattias Ellert	Classic Infoserver (localLDAP), Classic Infoindex (EGIIS), Grid Monitor, infoproviders	Infrastructure
APEL client	John Gordon	glite-APEL, APEL parsers	Infrastructure
gLite Information System	Laurence Field	BDII, Glue model, Service info provider, site info provider, Infosys test suit, two cli (lcg-info and lcg-infosites)	Infrastructure
EMI Registry	Shiraz Memon	in design & development	Infrastructure
EMI Messaging	Lionel Cons	in design & development	Infrastructure
SAGA	Antony Wilson	SAGA Service Discovery	Infrastructure

Task Forces

• Task Force: Service Monitoring
• Task Force: Accounting

Related Pages

• ProbeTracker
• Simplification Plan
• Task Force: ERIS
• GLUE2 LDAP DIT & schema finalization

Internal Communication

Most of the communication within the Infrastructure Area is conducted via the email list. To subscribe to this list, please go to the subscription page. A bi-weekly phone conference take place using the EVO system to keep everyone informed of the current status and for discussion. The agenda for these meetings, along with the minutes can be found in indico. The announcement for this meeting will be send to the infra email list. Face2Face meetings will also be announced via the email list and the agenda will be also found in indico.