Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

> If it was ONLY about validation then anything could carry it.  But I
> contend it's not. We need health and operational instrumentation for
> diagnosis and options for predictive failure monitoring.

I would say we'd like them. I'm not sure we're willing to give up reliability 
to get it.

> I would suggest that these are risks and needed expectations to call out
> in the report.  If someone (institution or fed) chooses to use dropbox,
> great, but go in eyes open of what you are trading off.

Well, what I was agreeing with was that if you wanted a cheap strategy to 
give campuses the ability to sync off the data, that's a simple way to do it.

> Even the largest services brownout from time to time and realize that too
> is the reality that one could be open to. If AWS region X goes down, so
> does your federation?  Is that an acceptable risk?

This is why I'm not so sure of the cost involved in achieving adequate 
reliability, and adding the requirement to have total visibility on top of 
that may create a basic conflict. I think reliability/performance >>> 
visibility.
 
-- Scott