Subject: [ESDS] IF-MAP Intro (resend)

From: "Stuart Bailey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:25:37 -0700

Hello,

I am a co-editor for a new open specification from Trusted Computing Group (TCG) called IF-MAP.  It would appear to me that the CIB may be functionally equivalent to what we have defined as a Metadata Access Point (MAP).

The protocol, IF-MAP, defines a simple publish/search/subscribe interface to the MAP.  The MAP is a common metadata database.  Within the MAP, metadata automatically aggregates with respect to common unique keys (i.e. identifiers). 

While IF-MAP's initial use-cases are in coordinated security, it was designed to meet other coordinated computing use-cases and may be appropriate for ESDS.  The ESDS use-cases may be met simply by defining metadata labels appropriate for the use-case using XML Schema.  IF-MAP was designed to be modular in this way.

The binding to SOAP and HTTPS defined in IF-MAP 1.0 also makes adoption simple.

Thoughts?

Stu
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