[Go-essp-tech] esg blockers

[Bryan Lawrence]

Hi Folks

(to those of you who know I should be on hols, yes, I actually go out of 
email contact tomorrow, so this is my third to last email ...)

This email is just to let folks know about some discussions at NCAR last 
week that Michael L, myself, Eric N and Don had about ESG blockers.

This is a list of things that need to happen before ESG goes live, 
recognising that we (ESGF) are now standing in the way of folk wanting 
to publish data ...

In no particular order:

1) Replication (support for doing it, and for seeing it in the gateway)
2) Versioning ( support for doing it, and for seeing it in the gateway)
3) QC Tool (to create QC records, and to ingest them into the gateway)
4) Meta4 ingest into the gateway (it doesn't have to be *all* in before 
we go live, as long as enough is there to convince that it will all be 
there soon).
5) User managment tools, including for QC basd authorisatation (see 
later email)
6) Security, including CA trust
7) Minimum download function: wget via proxy certificate; but has to 
allow wget from any site with the data from any gateway.

There may of course be other things.

Cheers
Bryan


-- 
Bryan Lawrence
Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research
(NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC)
STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Phone +44 1235 445012; Fax ... 5848; 
Web: home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence