The OGSA DMI Functional Specification is now in public comment http://www.ogf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Documents/2008-02/ogsa-dmi-spec-edito... Abstract The Open Grid Services Architecture Data Movement Interface (OGSA-DMI) specification defines a standardized mechanism for moving data from its source to its destination. By abstracting this movement, the client complexity for moving data within a grid will be greatly reduced. OGSA-DMI defines two port types for initiating, scheduling and managing data transfers from a given source to a specified destination. The source and destination are described through Data End Point References (DEPRs), a specialized form of a WS-Address. An OGSA-DMI service will use the properties of the data to be transferred and the properties of the infrastructure to decide what the best underlying transfer protocol to undertake the actual data transfer is for the given combination of data source and sink. By this means OGSA-DMI provides a common interface, though its abstraction layer, that can be used to span the preferred transfer mechanisms used across many different types of Grid infrastructures. This version of the specification aims to ensure that the OGSA-DMI port types are composable with other Web Service (WS) specifications whilst being agnostic about any specific WS rendering. OGSA-DMI is only concerned with the moving of data, i.e. bytes. Any associated semantics are the responsibility of higher level services that leverage off OGSA-DMI. The OGSADMI framework is general enough to cater for the movement of single elements of data or composites. Please review and make comments (positive or negative): https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/discussion/do/listTopics/projects.ggf-editor/... Thanks, Steven