Comments received from Olegario regarding the first draft of the glossary with EGA definitions inserted. See message 
below and the attachment for details.

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Hi Jem, 

I've been involved in other activities during the last months. Anyhow, please find attached some few comments regarding 
the EGA part of the OGSA Glossary that called for my attention. 

Some personal and general comments that I have are: 

Any term in a glossary should have a short definition. It is not a teaching class about the concept to be defined. The 
longer it is will require more terms to be defined and the reader will be lost going back to what was reading. 

In this glossary (EGA), what is an enterprise is not clearly defined (in fact it is not). Every term related to 
enterprise, including applications, is confusing, as those related to data centers are, a concept on which EGA is based:
 “The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) is a consortium of leading vendors and customers working to accelerate the 
deployment of grids in enterprise data centers.” (Ref: http://www.gridalliance.org/en/about/faq.asp#FAQ_1). (Or 
enterprise refers to the ones that are part of the alliance?). In my very personal opinion, Enterprise grid is an "
application" of grid computing, therefore using OGSA’s ruling and definitions. 

The grid concept is something that is transparent to the kind (taken from the name that anyone wants to give to a grid: 
commercial grid, scientific grid, enterprise grid, academic grid, etc.) of applications that would run in a grid 
environment. Obviously the different kind of application will require different kind of resources, processes or services
 (batch, scheduling, etc), but those are different characteristics that should be managed by the grid management entity 
whatever it will be. 

Finally, as I say in some part of the comments, this glossary (EGA part), should be discussed by OGF in terms of the GGF
 and EGA integration activities. 
Best regards,

Olegario Hernandez

IBM Certified ODB Solution Designer
Civil Chemical Engineer - Universidad de Chile
(56) 2 220 5168 Santiago - Chile
Cel: 9 344 3136
E-mail: oleghf@vtr.net