SGNP is a proposed grid naming standard providing (1) Scalable, global namespace; (2) Secure communication among resources/services (no central authority), and (3) Reliable rebind capability in the event of migration, failure, replication, etc.
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Initiated by the EPIC Consortium, this project aims at developing a RESTful webservice for managing PIDs with the Handle System developed at CNRI.
Additionally, some RESTful clients in various commonly used languages will be developed.