Mandate of the GSSD Working Group

1. Establishing a migration plan from SRM v1 to SRM v2 so that the experiments can access the same data from the 2 endpoints transparently.
2. Coordinating with sites, experiments, and developers the deploymentcof the various 2.2 SRM implementations and the corresponding Storage Classes.
3. Coordinating the Glue Schema v1.3 deployment for the Storage Element and make sure that the information published are correct.
4. Ensuring transparency of data access and the functionalities required by the experiments (see Baseline Service report).

One of the outcome of the GSSD group is to produce the precise guidelines per implementation focusing on deploying the specific storage classes for a specific VO. If needed, we will organize tutorials (for Tier-2s) and agree on mini SC targets with the experiments.

Experiments representatives, SRM developers, MSS providers, Tier-1 and Tier-2 representatives are involved in the discussions and in the work of the GSSD. However, in order to be effective, one experiment and one specific implementation will be targeted at a given time. Possibly working sub-groups will be put in place to proceed in parallel on multiple implementations.

-- Flavia Donno - 31 Jan 2007