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Naming Requirements Document
by Mark Morgan 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Andrew asked me to mail this out to the ogsa working group. This is a document which was produced early on in the naming design team before the working group was formed. -Mark -- Mark Morgan Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Virginia http://www.mark-morgan.net mark(a)mark-morgan.net

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CFP: Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06) "Integration For Everyone" Annual Meeting of the Integration Consortium Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, May 22-24, 2006 http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com http://www.integrationconsortium.org ********************************************************************** --- OVERVIEW --- The Global Integration Summit (GIS) is the annual meeting of the Integration Consortium (IC), the non-profit, user-driven association of IT professionals focused on application, information, process, service, and system integration technologies. The GIS differs from other industry events as it is truly user-driven and vendor-neutral. With an attendance hovering above 200 every year, and involving senior integration executives from leading Global 2000 corporations, the event offers a personal atmosphere for networking. --- THEME --- For our 3rd edition, the theme "Integration For Everyone" seeks to build a unified view of the Integration Discipline. One outcome of the Summit should be to develop a new Integration Body of Knowledge (I-BOK) As such, we welcome IT thought leaders from industry, vendors, analysts, and academia to expose the "State of the Art" in integration solutions. --- TOPICS --- Topics can range from business drivers for integration such as Governance and Regulatory Compliance, to integration approaches and platforms such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), to technical infrastructure issues such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Open Source Middleware. Papers can take the form of conceptual frameworks, research in progress, best practice reports, case studies, and executive viewpoints. We welcome papers that contribute to enriching the I-BOK. Please see below for an outline, with a detailed list of 50 topics available at: http://www.integrationconsortium.org/docs/ibok-v1.pdf Part A - Business Perspective 1. Business Trends and Integration Drivers 2. Industry-Specific Integration Drivers Part B - Application Requirements 3. Application-Specific Integration Solutions 4. User-Centric Integration Solutions Part C - Development Capabilities 5. Strategic Management of the Integration Function 6. Integration Development Methods and Standards 7. Integration Development Tools and Best Practices Part D - Technologies and Standards 8. Integration Platforms and System Architecture 9. Core Integration Technologies and Standards 10. Integration Runtime Infrastructure --- IMPORTANT DATES --- * Papers Submission Deadline >>> January 31, 2006 * Notification of Paper Selection >>> February 20, 2006 * Confirmation by Author to present at GIS 2006 >>> February 28, 2006 * Early Bird Registration Deadline >>> April 1, 2006 * Upload Final Paper and Presentation >>> May 1, 2006 * Global Integration Summit >>> May 22-24, 2006 --- SUBMISSION --- * Instructions: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/callforpapers.htm * Paper Template: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/docs/template.doc * Submission System: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/submit --- CO-CHAIRS --- John Schmidt President, Integration Consortium Senior Vice President, Integration, Bank of America Peter Anadranistakis IC Board Member, Integration Consortium Chief Partnership Officer, Online Business Systems Dr. Stephane Gagnon VP Research and Standards, Integration Consortium Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology --- CONTACT --- Please send all enquiries by email to: info(a)globalintegrationsummit.com

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Proposed agenda for Dec. 7th call
by Hiro Kishimoto 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi all, The following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Dec. 7th Wednesday from 4pm to 6pm (CST). Dial-in numbers for Wednesday: Free: +1-888-452-0308 Intl/Toll: +1-484-644-0505 PIN: 71815 Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 1207 See more explanation: http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/ogsa-wg/2004/06/msg00077.html 1) Early discussion (10 min) Note taker assignment Roll call Telecon minutes approval (if available) Agenda bashing 2) OGSA presentation request from IPsphere (20 min) > IPsphere (http://www.ipsphereforum.org/home ) is a consortium of > network vendors and providers that recently began to work on a SOA > layer for inter-carrier negotiations (the "business layer" > augmentation to the OSI stack). They would like to hear about OGSA, identity federation/security/ discovery, WS-agreement and the other. They ask us to present OGSA at IPsphere tele conference on Thu Dec 8th, 5-7pm EST. I think we can use Ravi's MDC slide deck. Any volunteers for this Thursday? 3) OGSA naming policy discussion (45 min) From Nov. 16 minutes; > Agreed that it will likely take about 3 weeks to reach a decision > due to the various schedule issues, and given that some people > prefer to discuss the issues on teleconfs rather than using e-mail. > > ** Next steps > > - Accepted Hiro's proposal to create a document (two in fact) on the > requirements and issues and use it to drive the consensus process > - Get a shared understanding of issues, requirements and people's > positions. > > 1. Andrew and Mark for the OGSA-Naming WG will summarize Naming > requirements and issues > - Including issues from the list discussion and also including a > separate set of OGSA-DAI Naming requirements Since OGSA-Naming WG will have their teleconf this Friday (10am EST), we should postpone #1 till next time. (Dec. 19?) > 2. Tom will add issues from the list discussion to the policy > document, including BES related issues. OGSA-BES WG has discussed WS-Name issue on Dec. 1st. > WS-Name issue (Properties/Meta-Data) > - MUST be a EPR with meta-data that describes queue names to determine > WS-Name or EPR or what ever is coming later. SHOULD be an WS-Name. Make > sure that the meta-data is only on the container attribute. And as such > all Activities are referenced by EPR or WS-Name not a mix of the two. > - Change IsAcceptingActivities should be changed to meta-data on the > container. > > There needs to be a last call out on the EPR/WS-Name isssue. Let's make OGSA-WG's policy and OGSA-BES's decision consistent. 4) EMS architecture (45 min) (1) review sequence diagrams from composite roadmap 2.4 Job Termination 2.5 Dynamic Job Selection (2) Review Ian's comments on 2.3 Selected Job Execution > I need to see more details on what is being proposed in terms of a > selector interface, but I would be concerned if there was an attempt > to incorporate this as a primitive. As the brief and > far-from-comprehensive list above shows, there are many different > resource selection strategies that may be applied, and these > strategies may be applied in many different ways and in different > places. (3) Deployment and configuration scenarios break down Based on the discussion at the last CDDLM/ACS joint call, I think we need more fine grain scenarios breakdown for chapter 3. EMS Architecture Composition Roadmap (incorporate Nov. 9th CDDLM/ACS joint discussion) https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/proposed-ems-roadmap/… 5) Wrap up AOB <NEXT CALL> Dec. 12 (Mon) Basic Security Profile open issue discussion Architecture & Glossary 1.5 Dec. 14 (Wed) EMS architecture Dec. 19 (Mon) OGSA-AuthZ joint call Naming requirement discussion Jan F2F preparation Dec. 21 (Wed) EMS Arch CDDLM/ACS/GRAAP joint call ** This is the last call before holiday season. ** Telecon schedule: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/telecon_schedule/ -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Glossary updated
by Treadwell, Jem 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi, FYI that I've uploaded a new version of the OGSA Glossary v1.5, per discussion on the 12/5 telecon. It's available at http://tinyurl.com/aoalk. - Jem ________________________________ Jem Treadwell Hewlett-Packard Company 6000 Irwin Road Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 Phone: 856-638-6021 Fax: 856-638-6190 E-mail: Jem.Treadwell(a)hp.com <mailto:Jem.Treadwell@hp.com>

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BES/ByteIO/Naming Interop Meetings in the UK
by Mark Morgan 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

All, Hiro asked Andrew and I to post information about an upcoming meeting that will take place at Imperial College in London next week (12 December 2005 through 14 December 2005). I apologize to those of you on this list who already have this information. Uva has implemented prototype "proof-of-concept" versions of BES, ByteIO and an "RNS-lite" using WSRF.NET. Next week we will be meeting with a number of individuals to discuss/analyze/test interoperability of these implementations (in particular we are hoping to interop test with an implementation of BES being developed by William Lee at Imperial College. This meeting will also likely include discussions of implementation experiences in the hopes of improving the involved specifications. -Mark -- Mark Morgan Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Virginia http://www.mark-morgan.net mark(a)mark-morgan.net

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Proposed agenda for Dec. 5th call
by Hiro Kishimoto 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hi all, The following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Dec. 5th Monday from 4pm to 6pm (CST). The dial-in number for Monday; Free: +1-866-639-4741 Toll: +1-574-935-6703 PIN: 8980700 Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 1205 See more explanation: http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/ogsa-wg/2004/06/msg00077.html 1) Early discussion (20 min) Note taker assignment Roll call Telecon minutes approval (if available) Agenda bashing 2) Jan. F2F and GGF16 update (20 min) Hiro will send out revised schedule proposals. 3) Basic Security Profile - secure channel review (40 min) Takuya uploaded revised draft to gridForge https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/draft-ggf-ogsa-basic-… > The changes are: > * abstract > revised it > - to remove dependency to security token stuffs > - to add a clarification that this profile only focuses on mutual authn, > integirity and confidentiality of WS communication > - to add a reference to ogsa basic profile > * 3 dots in section 1.1 > revised it to make it clearer what the profile is doing > * section 1.2 > a reference to ogsa basic security profile is added. > it is mentioned that the secure channel profile should be used in > conjunction with one of ogsa basic profiles and ogsa basic security > profile. > the ogsa basic security profile is mentioned that it addresses security > issues which are common to all the ogsa services, such as security > token format. > * section 1.3 > the reference to WSSE is removeed from the Table > * section 2.1 > targets related to WSSE are revoed from the list > * chapter 3 > statements related to keyinfo exchange and security token are removed 4) Architecture and Glossary 1.5 review (30 min) Takuya uploaded revised draft to gridForge 5) Wrap up (10 min) AOB <NEXT CALL> Dec. 7 (Wed) Two naming requirement docs review EMS architecture Information model & CIM profile Dec. 12 (Mon) Architecture & Glossary 1.5 Basic Security Profile review Dec. 14 (Wed) EMS architecture Information model & CIM profile Telecon schedule: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/telecon_schedule/ -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Teleconference minutes - 30 November 2005
by Andreas Savva 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Minutes attached. https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20051130/en/1 -- Andreas Savva Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd OGSA Teleconference - 30 November 2005 ====================================== * Participants Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) Fred Maciel (Hitachi) Tom Maguire (EMC) Steve McGough (IC) Mark Morgan (UVa) Takuya Mori (NEC) Andreas Savva (Fujitsu) Ellen Stokes (IBM) Ravi Subramaniam (Intel) Jem Treadwell (HP) Apologies: Steven Newhouse Minutes: Andreas Savva * November 28 minutes approved with no changes * UML tool update - RSM was chosen; no objections so far. - Ellen is following up on how to get licenses. - (It is used by DMTF already so it is possible.) * Meeting planning ** GGF16 - Proposal to organize just the default 2 sessions. - It worked well last time and also allowed WG members to attend other sessions as well. The separate one day F2F should allow enough time for more detailed discussions. - One session could be 'Outreach'. But 'Outreach' last time was not well attended. There are two possibilities: - Andrew G's proposal to have a 'Town Hall' style meeting instead. Talk with Andrew to get more details - An outreach session as a 'deep-dive' for a specific capability to introduce the group's work in more detail. - The second session was a joint-wg discussion. Last time it was EMS-CDDLM. Having a similar joint discussion with another group might be a good idea. - The deadline for session requests is Dec. 14. - Groups requesting sessions after Dec 2 must have an up-to-date charter; not a problem since OGSA's new charter was approved recently. ** GGF16 B2B F2F - OGSA-WG has been asked not to overlap its B2B F2F with GGF sessions. So this time the back-to-back meeting will be on Friday only. - A room at IBM Athens has been reserved. But it may not have internet access. - Hiro is also looking for a room at a University in Athens and if it offers internet access the meeting may be moved there instead. - In any case a final decision for the venue should be made by the end of December. ** GGF16/F2F Actions - Hiro will send out a topic request to the list - For both the GGF16 joint session and for the one day F2F. The choice for the joint session to be based on people's availability (and whether they can attend the Friday F2F) and how big the topic is (fits in 90 minutes). - Review choices next week ** Jan. 2006 interim meeting - Agenda reviewed once on a call. Hiro is updating it and will review it once more. - Hiro will also do a zoomerang survey to confirm people's availability. * BES Information model review - Ellen sent out a ppt before the call. Only slide 4 was reviewed on the call. (Slides 1-3 are carried over from an earlier presentation and slide 5 is redundant and will be deleted.) - Slide 4 is based on work between Ellen, Andrew and Mark and is a first step in working out the minimal set of required and optional information for a BES container. - At this point, this work does not consider activities that may be started within the container. ** Operating System: - It seems to be accurate for a server box but does it cover other possibilities such as 'Java VM' or batch system (e.g., PBS)? - This is probably covered by the value of OSType. - Is this the best way to map to CIM? - There are probably some missing bits. The motivation is for this to describe an operating environment - The attributes are constrained to be specific to a BES container but it is expected that there will be a new class in CIM (Service Container) and that the BES container will be the constrained profile version of this Service Container (and not a subclass). - The classes are not shown yet - Other attributes: These are attributes that need to be explored further. E.g., libraries/packages are actually part of the application model in CIM and it is not clear how best to fit them in yet. ** Processor: - What is the difference between the '# of processes' here and the 'number of processes' in the Operating System? - It is not clear and needs to be reviewed again. - 'Load for computer systems', '# of processes': They don't seem so specific to Processor. - (Have to also think of virtualization: What is real or virtual in CIM. This is an ongoing discussion within CIM.) ** Networking - This is just an initial attempt. Current scheduling systems do not require this kind of information. - Still it seems strange that even simple descriptions such as the number of cards or their bandwidth are not part of the Optional list. ** Disk - Not discussed yet. To revisit later. ** Filesystem - Why is 'casesensitive' or 'filesystemtype' optional? - Most systems do not use these for scheduling ** ServiceContainer - The attributes listed after the first two items in the list should be optional not required. ** Management interfaces - Which of these are functional vs management interfaces? There are different perspectives, with the consensus that 'Stop' and 'Start' are probably management but less sure about the rest. - This is another item to discuss again in more detail within the design team. ** Overall - Consensus that this is a good step forward. It does need more work. - How many pages would a completed profile take? - It should not exceed 50 pages. - Next review? - Ellen's schedule is full in December. Work will continue within the smaller group and it may be possible to have another review in January before the F2F. - Jan 9 is probably the only full OGSA call possible in January before the F2F(+). But a smaller group could use one of the call slots to have a review. (+) Note: GFSG meeting is planned for the week before the OGSA F2F. * MDC presentation review - Reviewed presentation posted by Ravi to gridforge. Fred made revisions on the presentation during the call. Summary of main changes below: - Add EMC to Contributors slide - 'Concepts and Fundamental' document should be changed to Architecture document - Add that OGSA profiles are styled after WS-I profiles and are extensions of WS-I BP etc - Naming - details are under discussion but at an abstract level the content is ok - Need more graphics for OGSA Data: Ravi to ask Dave B - Newer version for 'Typical Pattern': Andreas to send to Ravi (Done) - Add CMM GFD # and also do the same for other published documents showing on the slides. - Comments to Ravi by Monday latest. The presentation is planned for Tuesday. - Fred will upoad as next version, tidy up the folder and send email how to uploade new versions of existing documents. (Done) * Next call ** Monday - 'BSP - Secure channel profile' (draft expected Friday) - Architecture and Glossary 1.5 review ** Wednesday - Naming & EMS

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Teleconference minutes - 28 November 2005
by Andreas Savva 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Minutes attached. https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20051128/en/1 OGSA Teleconference - 28 November 2005 ====================================== * Participants Mike Behrens (R2AD, LLC) Dave Berry (NeSC) Fred Maciel (Hitachi) Takuya Mori (NEC) Andreas Savva (Fujitsu) Frank Siebenlist (ANL) Jem Treadwell (HP) Jay Unger (IBM) Apologies: Peter Ziu Minutes: Andreas Savva * Minutes Nov 21 approved with no changes * Jan 2006 F2F - To be held at Sunnyvale. Proposed agenda is on gridforge. - The recommended hotel is the Corporate Inn. * OGSA 1.5: Infrastructure section review Reviewed new text in the infrastructure section. Some concerns were raised about the text discussing multiple profiles. There has not been any work on a second basic profile since the last GGF so saying 'defining' is not accurate---'allowing' may be better. Also there is a technical issue with saying that WS-Management is functionally equivalent to WSRF. Action: Jay volunteered to provide revised text for section 3.3.6 for review in a future call. * Basic Security Profile discussion - Agreed with proposal outlined in the email sent by Andreas to the list: separate out portions of the 'Secure channel' in a new Basic secure profile. - Takuya is working on removing those parts out of the Secure Channel and he will prepare a new draft this week. - Takuya will also prepare the new Basic security profile document - These drafts are not ready so their review is postponed for future calls. (The secure channel may be reviewed Wednesday if ready.) * Glossary review - Reviewed the Acronym list proposed by Olegario, using the normal policy---include OGSA related acronyms, consider non-OGSA grid acronyms, and do not include general acronyms. - Decisions recorded by Jem and will be uploaded to gridforge tracker. Only actions relating to the Architecture document are recorded here: - Consider adding footnote for CORBA (Andreas) - Review usage of DBMS and also RDMBS and ODMBS (Andreas) - EMS should probably be consistenly OGSA-EMS (Andreas) - EU: Change citation to VOMS and spell out EU instead (Andreas) - LDAP, RDMBS: have a look at usage of section 3.7.5 (Andreas) - PII: Andreas to check with Frank or Takuya - VLANs: Andreas to check if RM text can be rewritten * MDC presentation review - Postponed review---no quorum. - Andreas will send editable OGSA v1 figures to Ravi - Jem will send the 'refererenced standards' slides to Ravi - Andreas will arrange for a review of the slides for the next meeeting: preferably towards the end of the meeting.

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MDC presentation uploaded to GridForge
by Fred Maciel 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, I updated to GridForge Ravi's MDC presentation edited according to the discussion today, and re-organized the files there (folder: "Meeting Materials and Minutes/Other"): - The file "MDC 2005 OGSA intro presentation" had already three versions... - ...I uploaded the following version ("MDC Preso - High Level OGSA Intro - 4Review" in the same directory) as version 4... - ...Then uploaded the following version ("MDC-Preso-Review-20051130") as version 5... - ...And the one I edited today as version 6. The latest version (whichever number it is) can be downloaded from the URL below. I'm not attaching it to this e-mail since it's quite big. https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/OGSA-high-level/en / You can upload a new version by accessing the "Details" page of the document, pressing the "Edit" button, putting the new file in the "Upload File" field, and pressing the "Update Document" button. Hiro: I don't seem to have access permission to delete or to move files, can you please move the "MDC Preso - High Level OGSA Intro - 4Review" and "MDC-Preso-Review-20051130" files to the trash folder, to avoid any confusions? (We might keep them there until after MDC just in case). Regards, Fred Maciel Hitachi America R&D

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