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: C539 Date: 9/29/2001 Paper Title: Web-based acess to the grid using the Grid Resource Broker Author(s): Giovannia Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro 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. accepted provided changes suggested are made D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ Overall the papers is good, but there are a few sections that are either incomplete or inaccurate. Section 2.5 says that GridFTP supports third-part transfers, which is true, and then goes on to say that the Globus toolkit doesn't support third-part transfers. This is incorrect. The Globus GridFTP client libraries do support third-party transfers. The paragraph on security in section 3 needs to be corrected and expanded. It is not true that MyProxy uses one-time passphrases. It uses a user supplied passphrase, and not a one-time passphrase which is a technical security term. I'd also like to see more then one sentence about how cookies are used. What information is stored in them? How are they protected from malicious use? In section 4 the claim is made that using C in their portal provides better performance. Is there any data to back that claim up? With the overhead of CGI, Java Servlets are frequently benchmarked faster in industry. If this claim is going to be make, I'd like to see some performance data. The section on Project Status could use some information on users of GRB. What application groups are using the portal? How well does a generic portal work to meet the needs of multiple application groups? F: Presentation Changes The overall English reads a bit rough currently.