Gateway Discussion
There are existing databases at MSRC’s with lists of installed software such as Gaussian
These need to be fed in (with Jini like mechanism) to Gateway system -- note each MSRC will and can use different internal formats but export to Gateway in common format
Gateway has a user/group profile, history mechanism cf. Tango needs
Currently by hand event model to be replaced by CORBA event model
there is a tag called connection in task specification invoking events