December 2005 - acs-wg - lists.ogf.org

Last call for Application Contents Service Specification 1.0
by Keisuke Fukui 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Folks in ogsa-wg, cddlm-wg and acs-wg, We, acs-wg, has come to completion of the ACS Specification 1.0 after discussions and reviews. This is the last call for comments before submission to the GGF Editor for publication. If you have comments, please get them to me by 9 am Japan time on Monday November 7. If there are no significant comments I plan to submit the document on Monday afternoon. Below is the link for the document: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg/document/draft-ggf-acs-spec-1.0… Regards, Keisuke Fukui ACS-WG co-chair

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Teleconference minutes - Dec 14
by Sachiko Wada 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi team, Here is the minutes of the last teleconf. Please review it and point out where the record is not correct, if any. It is also available at Gridforge: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg/document/minutes-20051214/en/1 Sachiko ======================================================================= ACS Teleconference ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date and Time: Dec 14 19:10-20:00 EST 2005 / Dec 15 9:10-10:00 JST 2005 Participants: Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu) Tom Studwell (IBM) Michael Behrens (R2AD) Sachiko Wada (ASCADE) - minutes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * GGF16 session Keisuke have requested two 90 min sessions, one for internal discussion and the other for the out-reach. The session for internal discussion may be canceled since the active members of WG except Keisuke and Sachiko expressed regrets; it will end up with just another regular weekly call:-) * January and February OGSA F2F Mike will join the January meeting over phone to a couple of sessions related to ACS and WS-Name if possible. Keisuke will join the February one, which will be held after GGF16. * Updates and schedules + Open issues - Relationship with SDD Updates about SDD TC activity from Tom: They have plan to have SDD version 1.0 specification approved as Committee Draft in April. Alongside, existing IUDD spec may be reworked and submitted to SDD TC in Feburuary. ACS next version: There is no specific time frame for ACS next version yet. It may depend on the SDD progress. Tom said that SDD TC may be able to bring their early draft to ACS-WG in March so that we can make comments on whether and how it meets ACS requirements. - Other Tom suggested that "Manageability Capability of ACS instance" should be added to the list of open issues. + OGSA EMS discussion This topic will be discussed in OGSA meetings other than ACS sessions. We need to catch up with their discussion and sort out our observation. + OGSA meeting Mike reported that he raised a new scenario at OGSA teleconf today about grid resources whose network connectivity are not always assured, such as mobile devices or lap tops. Details are reported in OGSA minutes. + NAREGI Keisuke reported that he joined a meeting with NAREGI, which is not only for PSE and ACS. He heard an interesting topic in terms of deployment there and will provide us some information at the next teleconf. * Next meeting The next meeting will be arranged next year, maybe Jan 11 Wed. The precise date and time will be announced later.

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Next call on January 11
by Keisuke Fukui 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Folks, I came to have a schedule internal to my company for the time of regular call this Wednesday. Unless otherwise you have immediate agenda this week, I ask you to skip the one and following several calls. If it is acceptable for you, I propose January 11 for the first call next year. I'm expecting several topics early next year, such as OGSA F2F discussions, SDD TC new schedule and drafts, and GGF16 planning. We will start next year thinking about these as well as our next steps we discussed in a recent couple of calls. I guess now we need some good rest by then and prepare for the next leap. So let me know if you feel ok with the call schedule above. - Keisuke

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Agenda for the Call on Dec 7 Wed 19:00 EST/Dec 8 Thu 9:00 JST
by Keisuke Fukui 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Folks, Here is an agenda for the call tomorrow. See you there! ### Proposed Agenda 1. Role call, note taker & time keeper, agenda bashing. (5 min) 2. GGF16 session (20 min) 3. From now on (10 min) - Fact and Projection Nov 10 Submission to the GGF editor (Done!) End Nov. Comments from GGF editor received. Early Dec. Comments are addressed and returned. Mid Dec. 60 day public review starts. End Feb. review comments are collected. Mid Mar. updated draft is returned to GGF editor. End Mar. approval by GGF. - Candidate action items for the next step + Open issues described in the "Spec. 1.0" (See below) + OGSA EMS discussion - catch up and join the discussion (GGF16 in Feb. and combined OGSA F2F) + Giving assistance and get feedback from reference implementations: NAREGI, Business Grid, Mike, etc. + VM (Virtual Machine) image management for Xen or VMware + Deployment automation research (opsware, DCML, install servers, etc..) - FYI, below is the items in the Open issues in the ACS Spec. 1.0: + The relationship to the outcomes from the on-going OASIS SDD TC activities should be discussed once after the XML Schema for their deployment descriptor is published. Interoperability need to be considered. + More extensive or detailed Resource Properties for ApplicationRepository and ApplicationArchive may be explored and be a part of the specification. + For the retrieval of the version history, the ACS repository may store an entire tree of the sequence may be maintained and provided for the users, while this version only maintain the links to the parent and children. + More features that assist the replication of AAs may be explored in accordance with the on-going discussion in the other standard activities. Goal: Find the work items while the reviews by GGF editor and public comment take place. Meeting schedules? 4. Wrap up, Next meeting(5 min) Total: 40 min ### Logistics for the call Date & Time: Dec 7 Wed 19:00 EST/Dec 8 Thu 9:00 JST Dial-in Number: 1-712-432-2000 (Lake Park, IA) Participant Access Code: 7771111 -Keisuke

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Agenda for the Call on Dec 14 Wed 19:00 EST/Dec 15 Thu 9:00 JST
by Keisuke Fukui 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Folks, Here is an agenda for the call tomorrow. See you there! ### Proposed Agenda 1. Role call, note taker & time keeper, agenda bashing. (5 min) 2. GGF16 session (5 min) I have created tentative session requests to meet with the Wednesday 14 deadline. (On my display, the date and time are displayed in the Japan timezone. I don't know if they are converted in U.S. time in the record, but for the sake of my peace of mind.) As we discussed in the last call, I have created two of 90 min sessions as an initial request, one for internal discussion and the other for the out-reach. 3. January and February OGSA F2F (5 min) I will not be able to be present in January one, but will be in February one. 4. Updates and schedules (5 min) - "ACS Spec. 1.0" proceeded to the GFSG review phase. See updates in below: https://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=1696 - I propose to have our tele-cons bi-weekly starting January 11, 2006. 5. Wrap up, Next meeting(5 min) Total: 25 min ### Logistics for the call Date & Time: Dec 14 Wed 19:00 EST/Dec 15 Thu 9:00 JST Dial-in Number: 1-712-432-2000 (Lake Park, IA) Participant Access Code: 7771111 -Keisuke

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Survey for OGSA-WG F2F meeting in January 2006
by Hiro Kishimoto 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi all, and sorry for the cross-posting. As you already know, OGSA-WG and fellow WGs are planning to have F2F meeting in January 2006. The meeting will be held in the week of January 16 from Monday morning to Friday noon at Fujitsu campus in Sunnyvale (SF Bay Area). Please let us know your plan for attendance by answering the following on-line survey. Deadline is EoB December 21st. http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224URW95UZU Session owners: Please provide detailed session agenda, I will incorporate your in the meeting schedule. The latest proposed agenda for January OGSA-WG and the fellow WGs F2F meeting is uploaded to the GridForge. https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/2006Jan-OGSA-F2F-agen… Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Teleconference minutes - Dec 7
by Sachiko Wada 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi team, Here is the minutes of today's teleconf. Please review it and point out where the record is not correct, if any. It is also available at Gridforge: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg/document/minutes-20051207/en/1 Sachiko ======================================================================= ACS Teleconference ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date and Time: Dec 7 19:10-19:45 EST 2005 / Dec 8 9:10-9:45 JST 2005 Participants: Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu) Peter Ziu (Northrop) Michael Behrens (R2AD) Sachiko Wada (ASCADE) - minutes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * GGF16 session GGF16 will be held February 13-16, 2006, in Athens. Mike and Pete may not attend. Keisuke will attend GGF16 and the following OGSA F2F meeting. The deadline for WG session requests is next week. The following are the ideas for the session: Express your idea on the ML. - Explain the specification and gather comments from attendees. - Promotion of the ACS specification. - Interaction with EMS. * Next meeting Date: Dec 14 Wed 19:00 EST/Dec 15 Thu 9:00 JST Calling #: will be announced later # Another date may be arranged if it is inconvenient for Mike and Tom.

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Teleconference minutes - Nov 30
by Sachiko Wada 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi team, Here is the minutes of the last teleconf. Please review it and point out where the record is not correct, if any. It is also available at Gridforge: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg/document/minutes-20051130/en/1 Sachiko ======================================================================= ACS Teleconference ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date and Time: Nov 30 19:05-20:10 EST 2005 / Dec 1 9:05-10:10 JST 2005 Participants: Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu) Peter Ziu (Northrop) Michael Behrens (R2AD) Sachiko Wada (ASCADE) - minutes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Updates - SDD TC status SDD TC face to face meeting was held in Santa Clara, CA, Nov. 14-16. Tom and Keisuke attended the meeting. There was a discussion about already collected requirements, which were classified to 17 categories. The TC continues discussion to sort out and shape up the requirements. All documents are available from the SDD TC site: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=sdd We are expecting closer relationship with SCC TC. Joshua Allen of Macrovision showed particular interest in ACS. The updated schedule for their schedule is to be discussed yet. SDD refers IUDD spec which was submitted to the W3C as 'Member Submission', so we may prepare comments to the SDD based on the IUDD spec. - From now on We submitted our first draft to the GGF Editors and we are waiting for the response from them. Below is the current projection, though it depends on when the Editor review finishes. [Projection] Nov 10 Submission to the GGF editor (Done!) End Nov. Comments from GGF editor received. Early Dec. Comments are addressed and returned. Mid Dec. 60 day public review starts. End Feb. review comments are collected. Mid Mar. updated draft is returned to GGF editor. End Mar. approval by GGF. - Next Step Below are the candidate action items for the next step from Keisuke: + Open issues described in the "Spec. 1.0". + OGSA EMS discussion - catch up and join the discussion (GGF16 in Feb. and combined OGSA F2F) + Giving assistance and get feedback from reference implementations. + VM (Virtual Machine) image management for Xen or VMware Since VM can contribute to a final granularity management of OS, VM could be a finer and more effective hosting environment of Grid applications, especially in terms of security and deployment. VM implementation is out of scope of Grid standardization, but we may be able to contribute to some of the aspects how VM needs to be operated. For example, a snapshot image could be managed as a ACS archive, which is automatically generated by management tools. + Deployment automation research (opsware, DCML, install servers, etc..) Action: All, to list up action items to be discussed and send them to the ML. * Next meeting Date & Time: will be announced later. Keisuke will ask Tom his preferred schedule.

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[Fwd: [gf-chairs] GGF16 Group Session Request period is now open!]
by Keisuke Fukui 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Folks, We will cover the GGF16 session plan on the next call, too. If someone may not be able to attend, please post your idea here. I think we may discuss about: - public comments on ACS Spec. 1.0 - assistance to and feedbacks from reference implementations - relationship to other standard activities In addition, we may consider about the presentation to the audience. Be there and share your idea! -Keisuke

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[Fwd: [acs-wg] Agenda for the Call on Nov 30 Wed 19:00 EST/ Dec 1 Thu 9:00 JST]
by Keisuke Fukui 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi Tom, I regret that we missed you in today's meeting. I hope that we have a meeting once at this occasion to discuss our future plan in the presence of all active members. If you can suggest your preference on time and date for the meeting, we will have one in addition to, or in place of the regular call. I understand that now is the busy time for you to drive your TC, so if you need defer this for some time, we can wait for it. In any case, if your contribution about the topics via e-mail is very much welcomed, too. I hope you can find some time to do some of this. I'll keep in touch with you. -Keisuke Keisuke Fukui wrote: > Folks, > > Here is an agenda for the call tomorrow. See you there! > > ### Proposed Agenda > 1. Role call, note taker & time keeper, agenda bashing. (5 min) > 3. Updates (10 min) > - SDD TC status KF and Tom > 4. From now on (20 min) > - Fact and Projection > Nov 10 Submission to the GGF editor (Done!) > End Nov. Comments from GGF editor received. > Early Dec. Comments are addressed and returned. > Mid Dec. 60 day public review starts. > End Feb. review comments are collected. > Mid Mar. updated draft is returned to GGF editor. > End Mar. approval by GGF. > - Candidate action items for the next step > + Open issues described in the "Spec. 1.0" (See below) > + OGSA EMS discussion - catch up and join the discussion > (GGF16 in Feb. and combined OGSA F2F) > + Giving assistance and get feedback from reference implementations: > NAREGI, Business Grid, Mike, etc. > + VM (Virtual Machine) image management for Xen or VMware > + Deployment automation research (opsware, DCML, install servers, > etc..) > - FYI, below is the items in the Open issues in the ACS Spec. 1.0: > + The relationship to the outcomes from the on-going OASIS SDD TC > activities should be discussed once after the XML Schema for > their deployment descriptor is published. Interoperability need > to be considered. > + More extensive or detailed Resource Properties for > ApplicationRepository and ApplicationArchive may be explored and > be a part of the specification. > + For the retrieval of the version history, the ACS repository may > store an entire tree of the sequence may be maintained and > provided for the users, while this version only maintain the > links to the parent and children. > + More features that assist the replication of AAs may be explored > in accordance with the on-going discussion in the other standard > activities. > Goal: Find the work items while the reviews by GGF editor and public > comment > take place. Meeting schedules? > 4. Wrap up, Next meeting(5 min) > > Total: 40 min > > ### Logistics for the call > Date & Time: Nov 30 Wed 19:00 EST/Dec 1 Thu 9:00 JST > Dial-in Number: 1-712-432-2000 (Lake Park, IA) > Participant Access Code: 7771111 > > -Keisuke > > >

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