I'm with David on this. I don't understand why the step was taken FROM
We need a way to run agents for the experiments to fill the current gaps
in functionality
TO
The experiments should have complete control over the box on which they
run - or even limited control to install new, unknown user-space
software.
John
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> > We're trying to find an operational procedure which can give the
> > experiments the missing components while maintaing proper security.
>
> The proper answer is simply "the experiments ask the sites to
> install the software for them." Given the software being
> installed is moderately mature and of production quality, the
> rate at which the software is changing should be sufficiently
> low that this is achievable.
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