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Data Access Layer Interface

DALI is a base set of requirements and rules that all DAL services will follow. The goal is not to define what service must do, but rather to specify various common service resources or operations so t if a service specification includes a common operation it will do so by referencing the DALI specification. This will make it much easier for common service features to be defined once and implemented the same way wherever they are needed.

Discussion Topics for the Pune2011 interop

1. Standard resources: sync, async, availability, capabilities, tables

2. Standard job parameters: REQUEST, VERSION, FORMAT, MAXREC, RUNID

3. rules for literal values: dates, ranges, lists

4. repeated parameters vs comma-separated list: equivalent?

5. table upload (re: object-list query science use case)?

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