CandC:PandE Referee Report Form *********************************************** Electronic Transimission to gcf@indiana.edu strongly preferred Referees Home Page: http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/CandCPandE/ Email gcf@indiana.edu for URL of full paper to be reviewed WILEY Journal Home Page John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. Baffins Lane, Chichester West Sussex, PO19 1UD, England Telephone: (01243) 779777 Fax: (01243) 770379 REFEREE'S REPORT Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience ********** A: General Information Please return to: Geoffrey C. Fox Electronically Preferred gcf@indiana.edu Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Computer Science Department 228 Lindley Hall Bloomington Indiana 47405 Office Phone 8128567977(Lab), 8128553788(CS) but best is cell phone 3152546387 FAX 8128567972 Please fill in Summary Conclusions (Sec. C) and details as appropriate in Secs. D, E and F. B: Refereeing Philosophy We encourage a broad range of readers and contributors. Please judge papers on their technical merit and separate comments on this from those on style and approach. Keep in mind the strong practical orientation that we are trying to give the journal. Note that the forms attached provide separate paper for comments that you wish only the editor to see and those that both the editor and author receive. Your identity will of course not be revealed to the author. C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C548 Date: 9/29/2001 Paper Title: A Web Services Data Analysis Grid Author(s): William A. Watson III, Ian Bird, Jie Chen, Byran Hess, Andy Kowalski, Ying Chen Referee: Keith R. Jackson Address: 1 Cyclotron Road MS 50B:2239 Berkeley, CA 94720 KRJackson@lbl.gov Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and details in following sections. publish as is D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ Overall this is a very good paper that describes what may become a very common way to integrate web services into the Grid. I would be interested in hearing a little more detail about how X509 credentials are used within the system. How do clients bootstrap into the PKI environment? One other minor item, it would be nice to hear a little more about the current satus of this work in section 5. Is this code currently being used? F: Presentation Changes In my version the diagrams come out really out of focus.