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Hi,

> Sorry about this. I thought that I can just email the list and ask
> questions about EDG which is what LCG uses. I'm not an LCG/EGEE member
> but I contacted someone who is a member of LCG and asked him this
> question. He told me that EDG is no longer maintained and the best
> people to ask is the LCG users.
>
> We have partners in Australia who are using LCG but our site is not and

Who are those partners?  I am not aware of any LCG usage in Australia...

> still evaluating if we have users who will use it.

Do your users have anything to do with the LHC experiments or EGEE VOs?

And why would you be particularly interested in the RLS, which is just
one of the many components that make up LCG?

> Maarten Litmaath, CERN wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Gerson Galang wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've already emailed some of the EDG developers about this but I still
> >>have not received any response from them. I just want to know what the
> >>difference is of the EDG RLS from the Globus RLS. It was documented in
> >>the EDG site that EDG RLS is web services based while Globus RLS is grid
> >>services based. If ever this is true, do you know where I can download
> >>only the RLS component of EDG?
> >
> >
> > Let me first ask: why?
> >
> > You are posting this on the LCG roll-out list, which is a list for
> > discussing deployment issues for LCG releases.  Are you a site admin
> > or LCG/EGEE VO member?
> >
> > The EDG RLS currently is the default file and metadata catalog for LCG;
> > one cannot just download it and expect things to work or even be
> > understandable without a significant LCG context.
> >
> > Also note that the EDG RLS has serious performance and functionality
> > problems; it is being phased out.
> >
>