Investigate CERN File Transfer Service (FTS)

Who?

• SRC developers and architects 

What?

• Build connections/find mediums of communication
• Identify resources, build an understanding
• Possibly deploy, but as stretch

Why?

• Build experience with FTS which is the middleware to establish direct storage-to-storage transfers (third party copy) over a network. FTS is a hard dependency for Ruicio instances that require third party copy. FTS establishes connections between storage systems using the required protocols and ensures that files are correctly transferred over the networks.

Other notes:

• Description of Ruicio and FTS: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09857.pdf (Please update this if not the best reference!)