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> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sam Skipsey said:
> Glue 2 transition has been a lot more slow than I think anyone expected...)
Well, in some ways I'm somewhat surprised it got as far as it has! The GLUE 2 work started in earnest in 2007 and deployment was finished in 2010, which by grid standards isn't especially slow (can I say glexec :). We also had the generic service publisher by then because I wrote it. However there was nothing to publish CE and SE information. For the CE I actually started on a GLUE 1 translator myself because I thought the CREAM people wouldn't do it, and for the SEs I thought it was unlikely to happen at all. However EMI changed all that, they made GLUE 2 a major project goal so we got publishers for CREAM, StoRM, dCache and DPM as well as ARC who were pushing GLUE 2 anyway, and it was mostly implemented. EGI started working on migration in 2011 and had nearly finished by 2013. Unfortunately the end of EMI took the impetus away on the development side, and EGI's financial problems reduced their interest in deployment, so we've now had two years with little progress. I have no feedback on what view EGI takes now.
Stephen
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