BigData persists its data in a central data space, e.g. the Advert 
  service to facilitate distributed coordination:
  
  advert://advert.cct.lsu.edu/pilot/3d0d5960-296d-11e1-8896-00264a13ca4c/data/
  => namespace for pilot data
  
  advert://advert.cct.lsu.edu/pilot/3d0d5960-296d-11e1-8896-00264a13ca4c/data/pds
  => pilot data service 
  advert://advert.cct.lsu.edu/pilot/3d0d5960-296d-11e1-8896-00264a13ca4c/data/pds/pilot-data-description
  => pilot data description ...
  
  advert://advert.cct.lsu.edu/pilot/3d0d5960-296d-11e1-8896-00264a13ca4c/data/pds/
  => pilot store service 
  advert://advert.cct.lsu.edu/pilot/3d0d5960-296d-11e1-8896-00264a13ca4c/data/pds/pilot-data-description
  => pilot data description
  This class is stateless - the application's base_url needs to be 
  passed into every method.
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          list_pd(cls,
        pds_url) 
      return a list of urls to pd managed by the PDS | 
          
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          list_du(cls,
        dus_url) 
      return a list of urls to du managed by the PDS | 
          
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