Final specification for TAPE REST API 1.0

Server / client status

• CTA @ CERN
  • version "0" presented at EOS workshop running on development instance
  • minor differences with respect to final 1.0
  • should not take too much time to come with full 1.0 implementation
  • made available early so FTS / gfal2 developers can implement and test TAME REST API
• dCache
  • final 1.0 standard already implemented and 2/3 of code already in master branch
  • remaining patches in review
    • this can still take some time
    • can provide snapshot with full 1.0 implementation
      • to test FTS / gfal2 client implementation
• StoRM
  • trying to find right technology for implementation
  • would like to use new gfal to manually test API during development
    • it'll take one or two weeks to merge all recent gfal2 updates and come with official release
• FTS / gfal2
  • most of required functionality already added in gfal2
    • extended gfal http plugin (staging, archive, evict, ...)
    • currently tested with CTA, but developers would like test also with dCache
  • still some development necessary on FTS side

All server / client implementations designed to work with X.509 VOMS proxy and also tokens

• add to compliance test-suite once gfal2 developers try their implementation also with dCache
• include gfal2 client in compliance tests and not just curl to test server side