>I also appreciate the brevity and clarity of the definition.
>I think that defining the term 'Grid Computing' in such a
>short and concise manner is one of the tasks of OGF.
>
>Also, but unrelated, I happen to agree with the definition.
>The usage of Grid technologies within a single
>administrative domain is thereby not excluded (just as many
>programs use TCP for communication even if they are not
>running distributed).
>
>Extending the Daves definition in a way that it covers all
>possible use cases, and makes all potential users happy, is,
>IMHO, impossible, and would weaken the definition.
>
>One could, for example, say: the definition does not say
>anything about data management / virtualization / web
>services / APIs / protocols /...   But by mentioning one of
>those terms, one would leave out 10 others.  The definition
>Dave gives is concise, w/o limiting it to a small number of
>use cases.
>
>Sorry if that answer is somewhat long, but the definition
>as-is is actually, IMHO, worth to go on the OGF flag... :-)
>