"From section 3: “the ability to transfer data from one location to another” I had a bit of a misconception about the 
goal of the OGSA‐DMI specification before I reviewed it. I previously thought it would be similar to the Globus 
Reliable File Transfer service or the Storage Resource Management srmCopy interface. These tools manage several 
transfers per request, whereas as I now understand it the OGSA‐DMI interface is intended to support essentially a 
single “one location to another” data transfer. So it seems more akin to a Web service layer atop a data transfer 
utility. For instance, it appears to be a candidate to sit in front of the GridFTP servers as a WS interface for the 
control channel. Also, it could be a candidate to replace srmCopy though without support for multiple transfers. But as 
I understand it, it would not be a candidate for a service that schedules multiple data
transfers per request."