OGF
Monthly Newsletter
October 2006
A look at Past Accomplishments and A Preview
of Coming Attractions
Welcome
to the new OGF Monthly eNewsletter
Each
month we will highlight accomplishments for the past month and preview
activities planned for the coming month. Please feel free to submit newsletter
suggestions and items for consideration to jehrig@ogf.org.
New
Document Published
GFD.082
- Grid Information Retrieval System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Virtual
Organization
Two
important requirements that all Grid application systems should satisfy are to
accommodate the dynamic nature of Virtual Organizations (VOs), and to enforce
different levels of security among different VOs. This document shows how to
implement a Grid Information Retrieval (GIR) system using VO and security
mechanisms provided by Globus toolkit 3.0, and shows how GIR system scalability
and security can be improved for dynamic VOs. Congratulations to the Grid
Information Retrieval Working Group and Author Yangwoo Kim!
Read
the full document at http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.82.pdf
Area
Directors Named
Technical
Areas are the bedrock of the OGF and our Technical Area Directors manage and
facilitate groups, milestones and deliverables in defined areas of expertise
such as data, architecture, management, etc.
Ellen
Stokes, Management
Ellen is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Grid Strategy, Architecture, and Standards area. She is Co-chair of GGF/OGSA resource management design team to help OGSA model the resources necessary for Grid and put those model extensions/modifications into the DMTF Common Information Model.
Blair
Dillaway, Security
Blair is a software architect in the advanced technology incubation group of Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Office. He has participated in the OGSA Authz WG, providing substantive feedback on the new charter for the WG and commenting on early draft specifications.
David
Groep, Security
David has worked in the grid security area for a number of years, initially in the context of the European DataGrid project, continuing in EGEE, where he was responsible for the design of the site access control security services. He has long experience in GGF/OGF, being active in the security area, particularly its internationalization.
New
Organizational Members
Welcome
to our newest organizational members Altair Engineering and CANARIE.
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in
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in
Event
Review
OGF/ITU-T
Next Generation Networks Workshop
On
October 23-24, OGF and ITU-T collaborated on a workshop that brought together
experts from the grid and next generation network communities. OGF is actively
reaching out to communities such as the Telco community to advance Grid
adoption, interoperability and scalability. Opportunities for Telco's include:
1) specializing in network SLAs that are optimally suited to Grids; 2) using
Grids for their IT internal needs; and/or 3) offering Grids as a managed service
to customers.
ITU-T's
Global Standards Initiative on Next Generation Network (NGN-GSI) is well under
way and is responding to urgent market needs for global NGN standards. NGN
offers increased quality and service features for users, independent of the
underlying transport technology.
During
the two day workshop, graciously hosted by ITU-T at the headquarters in
Upcoming
Events
SC06
OGF
will have an exciting announcement regarding this show. Watch for details coming
soon.
DMTF
Management Developers Conference December 4-7 in
OGF
is a sponsor of this event and will by represented by Tom Roney, Ellen Stokes
and Fred Maciel who will lead a session on behalf of the Resource Management
Design Team. Visit the conference website for more information http://www.mandevcon.com/.
OGF19
Program
will include a full slate of chartered group sessions, 2 days of eScience
workshops,
OGF20
Save
these dates! Program overview to be announced soon.
Individual
Members - Activate your 2007 Membership
Even
though 2007 is a couple of months away, OGF is launching its 2007 individual
membership program now in order to provide immediate benefit to 2007 members
planning to attend OGF19. The fee for 2007 membership is $195 and registered
members will receive a $100 discount to all 2007 OGF events. Individuals who are
not employed by OGF organizational members may join OGF at http://www.regonline.com/112287.
Individuals that registered under the 2006 program are requested to reregister
for 2007 at a reduced 2007 annual fee of $100. Your member number will be required to
obtain this discount. Individual member benefits can be seen at http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_ind_program.php.
Questions may be sent to member-info@ogf.org
The
success of OGF depends upon member participation. All of the significant events,
activities and accomplishments of the forum are member driven. Please contact
any OGF staff member if you want to get involved http://www.ogf.org/ggf_contact.htm.
We welcome your input!