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Updated: Service Modeling Language (SML) educational session ** NOT AN OGF CALL**
by Andreas Savva 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:ogsa-wg@ogf.org ORGANIZER:MAILTO:andreas.savva@jp.fujitsu.com DTSTART:20070115T220000Z DTEND:20070115T230000Z TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:1 UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000B030661BB038C7010000000000000000100 000009CA9C25FD4BA57409B215C23ACC3900C DTSTAMP:20070115T053306Z DESCRIPTION:When: 2007年1月16日火曜日 7:00-8:00 (GMT+09:00) 大阪、札幌、東京.\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n------------\nFrom: ogsa-wg-bounces(a)ogf.org on behalf of Hiro Kishimoto [hiro.kishimoto(a)jp.fujitsu.com]\nSent: 2007年1月13日土曜日 0:30\nTo: ogsa-wg\nCc: Heather Kreger\nSubject: [ogsa-wg] Service Modeling Language (SML) educational section\n\nHi all\,\n\nIn July 2006\, Microsoft\, IBM\, HP\, Intel and several other companies\nhave published "service modeling language (SML)." This is a XML based\nlanguage specification and expected to be used to model complex IT\nservices and systems\, including their structure\, constraints\, policies\,\nand best practices. SML is based on a profile on XML Schema and\nSchematron.\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/servi ceml.mspx\n\nThis spec is still proprietary and authors are going to submit it\nto one of SDOs maybe early this year (Q1).\n\nHeather Kreger\, one of authors\, will provide one hour educational\nsession. This session is *not* OGSA nor OGF session. They will explain\nbut no feedback allowed unless we sign a contributer agreement form.\n\nDate: January 15\, Monday\ntime: 5-6pm ET\, 4-5pm CT\, 2-3pm PT\, 7-8am JST\, 10-11pm UK\ndial-in: 877-811-9717\npc: 440496\n\nAfter this session\, we will switch to our regular OGSA-WG dial-in\nand start to discuss without authors.\n\nThanks\,\n-- \nHiro Kishimoto\n\n--\n ogsa-wg mailing list\n ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org\n http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogsa-wg\n\n\n SUMMARY:Updated: Service Modeling Language (SML) educational session ** NOT AN OGF CALL** PRIORITY:5 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 CLASS:PUBLIC BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR

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Proposed agenda for Jan. 15th call
by Hiro Kishimoto 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

Hi all, Since SML education call will be 4-5pm CST, OGSA-WG call will start 5pm (one hour later than usual). The following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Jan. 15th Monday from 5pm to 6pm (CST). The dial-in number for Monday; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 0115 See more explanation: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 1) Early discussion (20 min) Note taker assignment Roll call Telecon minutes approval (Dec. 11) - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14057 Action Items status review (see the bottom of this email) OGF OGSA-WG session update Agenda bashing 2) SML discussion (30 min) Open discussion on SML education. 3) DMTF documents review (60 min, Ellen Stokes) Ellen will give evaluation on DSP0225, DSP0230, and DSP0227 and discuss if they meet OGSA-WG's needs. 4) Wrap up (10 min) AOB <*NEXT CALL*> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Jan. 18 (Thu) OGSA security (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw) OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw) Jan. 22 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong) Roadmap document (Chris Jordan) Jan. 25 (Thu) OGF19 prep (Tom and Hiro) <*ACTION ITEMS*> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1569 > From Dec. 11 call AI-1211a: Hiro to check with Takuya for any last minute changes and submit "BP - Secure Channel" for publication AI-1211b: Hiro will arrange for the management software demo session not to conflict with any OGSA session at OGF19 > From Nov. 30 call AI-11.30a: Michel to talk with Tom and Ellen on how to go about documenting his current proof of concept in the Info model Arch doc. > From Nov. 9 pm F2F. AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model profile document: BES Container" AI.11.09.pm-c: Andrew to produce a document drafting the definition of QoS AI.11.09.pm-d: Andrew to contact the HPCP WG regarding future involvement to create profile(s) on, e.g. BES, JSDL etc. > From Sept. 15 OGSA F2F AI-0915d: Tom will post BP base faults issue to tracker > From Aug. 17 call AI-0817a: Dave Berry and Jay Unger will approach groups (GIN, Globus, etc) that have implemented practical grids and start a discussion on how they handle data: - how data is treated as a resource that can be scheduled - how transfers are modeled - how files are advertised - how applications find files (query, by knowledge,?) (Due Oct. 9) > From July 20 F2F - EGR-WG (Ravi) will contact Geoffrey Fox and invites him to contribute use cases. - Andreas to go through the minutes and formulate a reply mail to Geoffrey on each artifact covered in these minutes. Postponed: Until next reference model call (Dec. 11th): AI-1023c: Tom volunteered to review Hiro's HPC Cluster use case slides and make appropriate changes to indicate where the CIM Profile would fit in and how it would link into the Reference Model. AI-1023d: Paul will add more items to list on slide 6 of the HPC Cluster use case AI-1023g: Hiro will look at other parts of slide 5 and identify further possible refinements of this use case. ---- Hiro Kishimoto

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No call on Jan. 11
by Hiro Kishimoto 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hi all, Since topic owners are not available on this Thursday, we won't have a call tomorrow. We will have one hour SML educational call and one hour OGSA call on next Monday. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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No call on Dec. 18th
by Hiro Kishimoto 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hi all, Since we don't secure key members' attendance at tomorrow's call, we have little choice but to cancel the call on Monday, Dec. 18th. The next call will be on Jan. 11th (Thu). Have a happy Holiday! -- Hiro Kishimoto

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CALL CANCELLED
by Andreas Savva 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Today's call is canceled due to lack of quorum. Thanks and apologies to all who came. Andreas

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Glossary defs: SLA/SLO
by Treadwell, Jem 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, as you saw in Andreas's minutes, we reviewed a few more terms on Monday's call, in the continuing convergence of the EGA and OGSA glossaries. We decided not to include DMTF, and we reviewed "utility computing," but decided not to include it for the time being - we'll revisit that decision later. We reviewed SLA and SLO. For SLA, I've converged the two definitions by reducing the wordiness of the OGSA definition and adding the concept of payment, which was in the EGA definition. The definition of SLO is unchanged from the OGSA version, because the definitions were consistent Service-level agreement: A contract between a provider and a user that specifies the level of service that is expected during the term of the contract. SLAs are used by vendors and customers, as well as internally by IT shops and their end users. They might specify availability requirements and response times for normal operations and for problem resolution (network down, machine failure, etc.), and they might stipulate the payment and/or penalties associated with meeting or failing to meet the agreed criteria. See also: Service-level objective Service-level objective: A target level of service for a resource or a set of resources. An SLO might be expressed in units such as average response time for a representative set of transaction types, or in terms of the monthly availability of a given service. See also: Service-level agreement If you have comments please let me know; otherwise I'll move these terms into the draft document. - 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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Proposed agenda for Dec. 14 call
by Hiro Kishimoto 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi all, The following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Dec. 14th Thursday from 7am - 9am (CST). ** attention: new international number ** Dial-in numbers for Thursday: Free: +1-888-452-0308 Intl/Toll: +(210) 234-7446 PIN: 71815 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 1214 See more explanation: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 1) Early discussion (20 min) Note taker assignment Roll call Telecon minutes approval (Dec. 11) - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14057 Action Items status review (see the bottom of this email) Agenda bashing 2) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Tom, 40 min) > > From Nov. 9 am F2F. > AI-1109am-a: Ellen and Tom will review the error code/faults issue > further with a view to put a proposal forward to DMTF. > (EJS) I had short discussion with DMTF person on this and will > close with Tom Maguire on this when I meet with Tom on Tues 12/12. > > > From Nov. 9 pm F2F. > AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model > profile document: BES Container" > (EJS) Meeting with Tom Maguire on this item Tues 12/12. > > > From Nov. 10 am F2F > AI-1110am-a: Ellen to look into WS-Policy and relationships to > what has been defined so far > Tom to Look at how to avoid overlap with WS-Policy > group > (EJS) Meeting with Tom Maguire on this item Tues 12/12. 3) OGSA security discussion (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw, 30 min) Very simple one-to-one, OGSA Basic Security Authentication Profile proposal. OGSA-AuthN-WG charter proposal. http://www.ggf.org/gf/group_info/charter.php?review&group=OGSA-AuthN-WG 4) OGSA workflow discussion (Andrew, 30 min) Minutes from Nov. 30th call > - Mark runs the group through the slides "Workflow thoughts" > provided by Andrew, Steve and Mark > - OGSA could either pick a specific Workflow language, and > alienate everybody else > - Alternatively, OGSA could pick none and create a new one, > and also alienate everybody else > - Orchestration and workflow must be separated > - OGF is best served with simplicity > - The proposal is as follows > -- stay away from language and API specification > -- Tightly scope WFDL (Workflow Definition Language) > -- Ensure reasonable mappings from existing systems into WFDL > -- Toos support > -- Reuse as much existing as possible > - WFDL is XML based and describes directed graphs > - Nodes are WFDL, ord JSDL > - Nodes have labelled input and output > - Mark walks the group along a sample WFDL instance document > - Jay: This example is a dataflow graph, not a workflow graph > -- Mark: Example 2 demonstrates other kinds of dependencies than > data dependencies > - Jay: Dependencies should be expressed as resources produced and > resources consumed > - The group discusses Jays suggestion > - Jay points out that the Workflow effort should be very carefully > evaluated against the current other efforts related to JSDL > - Chris: Defining (yet another) WF language is probably a bad idea > -- This would, among others, add delay > -- Andrew: As pointed out on the slides earlier, picking a > particular WF language or creating one is a matter of "choose your poison". > -- Fabio: We probably should focus first on listing the requirements the > languuage should meet > -- Jay: I believe it is possible to combine this workflow effort with current > efforts for JSDL and Information modelling > - The group discusses possible further steps from here on > - Andrew: After this first initial investigation, does OGSA think that the WF > issue is important enough to set forth a design team now, or postpone for > the moment > - Andrew proposes to set up a separate phone connference with a specific WF agenda > -- Jav and Michel support the idea > - The group discusses the appointment for the next WF call > - Jay proposes to use OGSA's Gridforge wiki to collect people's requirements, > dependencies, favourite existing WF solutions, etc. together to get an overview > on what's necessary and what's not. > -- The group reaches rough consensus to picck up this idea https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14042 4) Wrap up (10 min) AOB <*NEXT CALL*> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Dec. 18 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong) Roadmap document (Chris Jordan) Jan. 11 (Thu) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Fred) OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw) Jan. 15 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong) DMTF document review (Ellen Stokes) Jan. 18 (Thu) OGSA security (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw) OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw) Jan. 22 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong) Roadmap document (Chris Jordan) Jan. 25 (Thu) OGF19 prep (Tom and Hiro) <*ACTION ITEMS*> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1569 > From Dec. 11 call AI-1211a: Hiro to check with Takuya for any last minute changes and submit "BP - Secure Channel" for publication AI-1211b: Hiro will arrange for the management software demo session not to conflict with any OGSA session at OGF19 > From Nov. 30 call AI-11.30a: Michel to talk with Tom and Ellen on how to go about documenting his current proof of concept in the Info model Arch doc. > From Nov. 9 pm F2F. AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model profile document: BES Container" AI.11.09.pm-c: Andrew to produce a document drafting the definition of QoS AI.11.09.pm-d: Andrew to contact the HPCP WG regarding future involvement to create profile(s) on, e.g. BES, JSDL etc. > From Oct. 30 call. AI-1030a: Ellen will contact the DAIS-WG chairs and request they arrange a review DSP0225 > From Sept. 15 OGSA F2F AI-0915d: Tom will post BP base faults issue to tracker > From Aug. 17 call AI-0817a: Dave Berry and Jay Unger will approach groups (GIN, Globus, etc) that have implemented practical grids and start a discussion on how they handle data: - how data is treated as a resource that can be scheduled - how transfers are modeled - how files are advertised - how applications find files (query, by knowledge,?) (Due Oct. 9) > From July 20 F2F - EGR-WG (Ravi) will contact Geoffrey Fox and invites him to contribute use cases. - Andreas to go through the minutes and formulate a reply mail to Geoffrey on each artifact covered in these minutes. Postponed: Until next reference model call (Dec. 11th): AI-1023c: Tom volunteered to review Hiro's HPC Cluster use case slides and make appropriate changes to indicate where the CIM Profile would fit in and how it would link into the Reference Model. AI-1023d: Paul will add more items to list on slide 6 of the HPC Cluster use case AI-1023g: Hiro will look at other parts of slide 5 and identify further possible refinements of this use case. ---- Hiro Kishimoto

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Updated: OGSA Teleconference
by Andreas Savva 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:ogsa-wg@ogf.org ORGANIZER:MAILTO:andreas.savva@jp.fujitsu.com DTSTART:20061214T130000Z DTEND:20061214T145900Z TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:1 UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000209787F6BA1EC7010000000000000000100 000006606277C4A07694499791F143085B3F7 DTSTAMP:20061213T045300Z DESCRIPTION:When: 2006年12月14日木曜日 22:00-23:59 (GMT+09:00) 大阪、札幌、東京.\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n<pre>\n\nThe following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Dec. 14th\nThursday from 7am - 9am (CST).\n\n** attention: new international number **\n\nDial-in numbers for Thursday:\n Free: +1-888-452-0308\n Intl/Toll: +(210) 234-7446\n PIN: 71815\n See more information:\n - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477\n\nScreen share service will be provided.\n URL: http://ogsa.glance.net\n Session key: 1214\n See more explanation:\n https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584\n\n1) Early discussion (20 min)\n Note taker assignment\n Roll call\n Telecon minutes approval (Dec. 11)\n - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14057\n Action Items status review (see the bottom of this email)\n Agenda bashing\n\n2) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Tom\, 40 min)\n\n> > From Nov. 9 am F2F.\n> AI-1109am-a: Ellen and Tom will review the error code/faults issue\n> further with a view to put a proposal forward to DMTF.\n> (EJS) I had short discussion with DMTF person on this and will\n> close with Tom Maguire on this when I meet with Tom on Tues 12/12.\n> \n> > From Nov. 9 pm F2F.\n> AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model\n> profile document: BES Container"\n> (EJS) Meeting with Tom Maguire on this item Tues 12/12.\n> \n> > From Nov. 10 am F2F\n> AI-1110am-a: Ellen to look into WS-Policy and relationships to\n> what has been defined so far\n> Tom to Look at how to avoid overlap with WS-Policy\n> group\n> (EJS) Meeting with Tom Maguire on this item Tues 12/12.\n\n3) OGSA security discussion (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw\, 30 min)\n\n Very simple one-to-one\, OGSA Basic Security Authentication\n Profile proposal.\n\n OGSA-AuthN-WG charter proposal.\nhttp://www.ggf.org/gf/group_info/charter.php?review&group=OGSA- AuthN-WG\n\n4) OGSA workflow discussion (Andrew\, 30 min)\n\nMinutes from Nov. 30th call\n> - Mark runs the group through the slides "Workflow thoughts" \n> provided by Andrew\, Steve and Mark\n> - OGSA could either pick a specific Workflow language\, and \n> alienate everybody else\n> - Alternatively\, OGSA could pick none and create a new one\, \n> and also alienate everybody else\n> - Orchestration and workflow must be separated\n> - OGF is best served with simplicity\n> - The proposal is as follows\n> -- stay away from language and API specification\n> -- Tightly scope WFDL (Workflow Definition Language)\n> -- Ensure reasonable mappings from existing systems into WFDL\n> -- Toos support\n> -- Reuse as much existing as possible\n> - WFDL is XML based and describes directed graphs\n> - Nodes are WFDL\, ord JSDL\n> - Nodes have labelled input and output\n> - Mark walks the group along a sample WFDL instance document\n> - Jay: This example is a dataflow graph\, not a workflow graph\n> -- Mark: Example 2 demonstrates other kinds of dependencies than\n> data dependencies\n> - Jay: Dependencies should be expressed as resources produced and \n> resources consumed\n> - The group discusses Jays suggestion\n> - Jay points out that the Workflow effort should be very carefully \n> evaluated against the current other efforts related to JSDL\n> - Chris: Defining (yet another) WF language is probably a bad idea\n> -- This would\, among others\, add delay\n> -- Andrew: As pointed out on the slides earlier\, picking a \n> particular WF language or creating one is a matter of "choose your poison".\n> -- Fabio: We probably should focus first on listing the requirements the \n> languuage should meet\n> -- Jay: I believe it is possible to combine this workflow effort with current \n> efforts for JSDL and Information modelling\n> - The group discusses possible further steps from here on\n> - Andrew: After this first initial investigation\, does OGSA think that the WF \n> issue is important enough to set forth a design team now\, or postpone for\n> the moment\n> - Andrew proposes to set up a separate phone connference with a specific WF agenda\n> -- Jav and Michel support the idea\n> - The group discusses the appointment for the next WF call\n> - Jay proposes to use OGSA's Gridforge wiki to collect people's requirements\, \n> dependencies\, favourite existing WF solutions\, etc. together to get an overview\n> on what's necessary and what's not.\n> -- The group reaches rough consensus to picck up this idea\n\n https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14042\n\n4) Wrap up (10 min)\n AOB\n\n<*NEXT CALL*>\nhttps://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477\n\nDec. 18 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong)\n Roadmap document (Chris Jordan)\nJan. 11 (Thu) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Fred)\n OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw)\nJan. 15 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong)\n DMTF document review (Ellen Stokes)\nJan. 18 (Thu) OGSA security (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw)\n OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw)\nJan. 22 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong)\n Roadmap document (Chris Jordan)\nJan. 25 (Thu) OGF19 prep (Tom and Hiro)\n\n\n<*ACTION ITEMS*>\nhttps://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1569\n\n > From Dec. 11 call\n AI-1211a: Hiro to check with Takuya for any last minute changes and\n submit "BP - Secure Channel" for publication\n AI-1211b: Hiro will arrange for the management software demo session\n not to conflict with any OGSA session at OGF19\n\n > From Nov. 30 call\n AI-11.30a: Michel to talk with Tom and Ellen on how to go about\n documenting his current proof of concept in the Info\n model Arch doc.\n\n > From Nov. 9 pm F2F.\n AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model\n profile document: BES Container"\n AI.11.09.pm-c: Andrew to produce a document drafting the definition\n of QoS\n AI.11.09.pm-d: Andrew to contact the HPCP WG regarding future\n involvement to create profile(s) on\, e.g. BES\, JSDL\n etc.\n\n > From Oct. 30 call.\n AI-1030a: Ellen will contact the DAIS-WG chairs and request they\n arrange a review DSP0225\n\n > From Sept. 15 OGSA F2F\n AI-0915d: Tom will post BP base faults issue to tracker\n\n > From Aug. 17 call\n AI-0817a: Dave Berry and Jay Unger will approach groups (GIN\,\n Globus\, etc) that have implemented practical grids and\n start a discussion on how they handle data:\n - how data is treated as a resource that can be scheduled\n - how transfers are modeled\n - how files are advertised\n - how applications find files (query\, by knowledge\,?)\n (Due Oct. 9)\n\n > From July 20 F2F\n- EGR-WG (Ravi) will contact Geoffrey Fox and invites him to\n contribute use cases.\n- Andreas to go through the minutes and formulate a reply mail to\n Geoffrey on each artifact covered in these minutes.\n\nPostponed:\nUntil next reference model call (Dec. 11th):\n AI-1023c: Tom volunteered to review Hiro's HPC Cluster use case\n slides and make appropriate changes to indicate where the\n CIM Profile would fit in and how it would link into the\n Reference Model.\n AI-1023d: Paul will add more items to list on slide 6 of the HPC\n Cluster use case\n AI-1023g: Hiro will look at other parts of slide 5 and identify\n further possible refinements of this use case.\n\n</pre>\n\n\n SUMMARY:Updated: OGSA Teleconference PRIORITY:5 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 CLASS:PUBLIC BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR

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Teleconference minutes - 11 December 2006
by Andreas Savva 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Minutes attached. http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14057?nav=1 -- Andreas Savva Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd

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OGSA AuthN BOF charter session approved at OGF-19; input on HPC profile use case and other documents requested
by Alan Sill 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear OGSA-AuthN BOF participants, I received word today that our request to schedule a charter BOF for OGSA Authentication has been approved for OGF-19. The organizers hope to have a preliminary schedule for all sessions available by the end of this week. In a related item, the participants in the group working on the "HPC profile" would like feedback regarding authentication specifications within this profile. For the definition of the HPC profile and what this group is after, please see the documents at the following two links: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.ogsa- wg/docman.root.design_teams.hpc_profile https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/projects.ogsa-wg/ docman.root.design_teams.reference_model.input_materials (Apologies if the above links are split in the e-mail process, and please reassemble before following them if so.) This will be discussed briefly in the OGSA-WG overall call this Thursday. This call occurs from 7 to 9 am US/Central, but Hiro will attempt to arrange the call to bring up the security topics beginning at 8:00 am central. Finally, a note that the "Basic Security Profile" and "Secure Channel" have been or are close to being released: For BSP, from Hiro: > Modified on 12/08/2006 by Greg Newby > Status: - "ready to publish" > > Comment was added: > The standards council approved this document. It is now in last > call on the GFSG mailing list, prior to publication. > > Respond by visiting: > http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/artf3405 and for SC: > From: ogsa-wg-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org]On > Behalf > Of Takuya Mori > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:07 AM > To: ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org > Subject: [ogsa-wg] [update] OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel > > > Dear All, > > I have updated the SP - SC document as we discussed in the Nov 27 > conference call, and I think it's ready for FINAL CALL. > > Please have a look through the document. > Any comments are welcomed. > > The updated version of the profile is available on GridForge. > OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel: > https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/ > projects.ogsa-wg/docman.root.working_drafts.security_profile_1_0/ > doc13560/23 > > Changes: > - accepted all the change trackers > - updated the acknowledgement section > - updated the extensibility points since those of the extended > profile had been updated > - added a sentence on the extensibility points E009 and E011 > - updated Table 6 > - a number of changes, mainly gramatical errors > > Best regards, >>> Takuya In addition, there has been some discussion on the standards status of WS-Policy, but I have so far been unsuccessful in trying to come up with a current link for this. If anyone has one, and feels that discussions on this do not stray too far into OGSA-AuthZ territory, please forward it to me. (The links I have been able to find all date from the 2004 time period except for some from early 2006, which indicate that WS-Agreement was to supersede WS-Policy; those who know more please speak up.) I would like to get the above background work behind us, with a clean set of references for newcomers and a clear document list, both for existing documents and those "to be written," before the BOF assembles in North Carolina at the end of January. Please review the above and make suggestions for a working set of reading material that will help us get off to a good start with a clear vision of the standards and practices documentation/recommendation gaps that we need to fill as a group. Thanks, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D TIGRE Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics TTU ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Admin 233, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ====================================================================

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