Hi everybody, here is a report on the presentation/participation at the DTMF Symposium last week: 1. between the DMTF and OGF there is an official collaboration described by a "work register" that enroll OGF as an alliance partner of DMTF 2. Tom Roney is the person responsible for this liaison and he has invited OGF persons in order to give talks at the DMTF symposium: - OGF GLUE WG: I gave the talk - OGF OGSA WG: Ellen Stokes - OGF RM WG: Paul Strong - OGF (Technical Strategy): Chris Smith the presentation are available in the DMTF Symposium schedule: http://www.dmtf.org/events/alliancepartners/2007_schedule/ 3. as regards the GLUE talk: - we managed to "expose" DMTF people to our problem domain - based on the on-going work register, some DTMF member will provide some mentoring activity in order to enable us to "cast" the GLUE model in the context of CIM Meta-model and model - there was some discussion on IPR policies and the best way to collaborate seems to be in the context of official DMTF telecons - the effort that they will be able to spend is small (probably 1 telecon a month for 2 hours) - as regards the model, we explained the details of GLUE entities to a relevant person in the DMTF in a side meeting and I understood that several concepts can be already mapped into CIM -- Site -> AdminDomain -- Element -> AdminDomain -- Share -> SLA -- Resource -> Capability 4. the "Execution Environment" model defined in the context of OGSA WG (Ellen Stokes) will be part of next CIM Core schema with a dedicated page; GLUE could also go into that page (to be defined) My general comment is that the overall experience was an important event. Modeling GLUE in the context of CIM will add some overhead to our activity, nevertheless it is worth to try. The other important on-going activity is to evaluate how GLUE can fit into the OGF Reference Model. There is an on-going discussion in the context of the RM mailing list (http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/rm-wg/2007-July/thread.html) and we'll report as soon as we converge. You all are welcome to follow and contribute to the discussion. I will write another email about suggestions for next steps. Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Andreozzi INFN-CNAF, Tel: +39 051 609 2860 Viale Berti Pichat, 6/2 Fax: +39 051 609 2746 40126 Bologna (Italy) Web: http://www.cnaf.infn.it/~andreozzi