Hi Stephen,
i agree with everything that you say. Can you think of who to approach
to try get an exemption?
Best,
david
On 03/10/11 17:37, Stephen Burke wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Colling said:
>> We decided to register this VO in the
>> egi.eu portal for a variety of reasons only to find that only DNS
>> style VO names are now allowed
>
> Are you sure there is no exemption for existing VOs? I would try to push them on that first, changing a VO name is generally very painful.
>
>> As this is something that other VOs
>> must have done (possibly some time ago) is there any standard way of
>> doing this or is it a matter of painfully picking through every
>> individual part of the process?
>
> For some services there may be a short-cut, e.g. cloning the membership list in VOMS, but I think a lot of it will have to be done piecemeal. In effect you aren't changing your VO name, you're creating a new VO and migrating all your users, data and resources to the new one.
>
> Stephen
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