Dear *,
As many of you know we have a real time monitor that tracks jobs around
the grid and displays it on a map. For those of you who don't haven't seen
it you can find it at http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/. We also make
the real time data (as flat files or XML files) available to others and
finally we publish daily summaries of activities (as flat files or root
trees).
Now, we have always said that we while we gather the information as to
what user is doing what we would not publish it (except perhaps as an
anonymised hash ... currently we don't even do this). This is because of
various worries about privacy laws in various European countries. We have
never looked at these laws but understand that some people get very
worried about these things.
However, we have had a number of requests from people on the experiments
and individual users to publish this information. We have always politely
declined to do so. However, so many other people are doing this, the
RGMA RB monitoring, the MonaLisa job monitoring etc that I feel that we
should review our policy. Essentially we have 3 options:
1. Stay as we are where everything is anonymouse.
2. Publish the information for a specific user only to that user. The user
being identified through loading their certificates into the browser they
are using for the query.
3. Openly publish the information about each user. This is what others are
doing.
We would appreciate feedback from the community as to which route to take.
We want to be both useful and legal (if possible)...
All the best,
david
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