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OGSA EMS session minutes
by Hiro Kishimoto 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi all, OGSA EMS session minutes is now on the GridForge. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc13850?nav=1 Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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RSS FW: Microsoft makes Web services spec vow
by Maguire_Tom＠emc.com 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

_____ I thought you would be interested in this RSS article: Microsoft <http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007884.html> makes Web services spec vow Anybody who wants to use the WS-* specifications for Web services standardization won't get sued by Microsoft. The company this week posted a bulletin <http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx#EIB> stating it would not assert claims for usage of 35 specifications listed in the document. Microsoft has been a co-developer of these technologies and seeks to spread their usage by making what it calls its "Microsoft Open Specification Promise," which now takes the acronym, OSP. "It was a simple, clear way, after looking at many different licensing approaches, to reassure a broad audience of developers and customers that the specification(s) could be used for free, easily, now and forever," the company said. "Because Web services are a being widely adopted across the industry and with our customers, we decided to remove any potential questions about the widespread use of our IP in the implementation of these specifications," Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft, said in a statement released by the company. "This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you, and you acknowledge as a condition of benefiting from it that no Microsoft rights are received from suppliers, distributors, or otherwise in connection with this promise," the bulletin states. All bets are off, however, for anyone who participate in a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft over any of the specifications. Among the specifications covered include WSDL, SOAP, WS-Enumeration, WS-Federation and several specifications related to WS-Security. Reaction to Microsoft's move, posted with the bulletin, was favorable from open source advocates. "I see Microsoft's introduction of the OSP as a good step by Microsoft to further enable collaboration between software vendors and the open source community. This OSP enables the open source community to implement these standard specifications without having to pay any royalties to Microsoft or sign a license agreement. I'm pleased that this OSP is compatible with free and open source licenses," said Lawrence Rosen, of the technology law firm of Rosenlaw & Einschlag. Red Hat also endorsed the move. "Red Hat believes that the text of the OSP gives sufficient flexibility to implement the listed specifications in software licensed under free and open source licenses. We commend Microsoft's efforts to reach out to representatives from the open source community and solicit their feedback on this text, and Microsoft's willingness to make modifications in response to our comments," said Mark Webbink, deputy general counsel at Red Hat. Comments <http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007884.html#comments> (0) _____ News Feed Source Home Page: Feed Title: InfoWorld: TechWatch Feed URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/rss.xml Article Title: Microsoft makes Web services spec vow Link: http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007884.html Author: ~Paul Krill Publication Date: 9/13/2006 1:52:26 PM _____ Brought to you by Attensa for Outlook <http://download.attensa.com/app/landing.html> (download it here)

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Data/EMS scenario discussion?
by Dave Berry 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

The OGSA-D WG has a session on scenarios from 7.15-8.00 tonight, which follows the slot for the OGSA EMS and OGSA Data Architecture discussions. We could use the 7.15 slot to discuss the Data/EMS scenarios, in advance of tomorrow's F2F. Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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F2F meeting schedule changed
by Hiro Kishimoto 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi all, At the OGSA session yesterday. We agreed the following schedule changes for our Friday F2F meetings. - No Info model session since we've all done yesterday. - Shorten JSDL session from 2 hour to 1 hour. - Move DMI session from Friday afternoon to the morning. - Thus we will close Friday meeting at noon. You can escape from DC before Friday rush hour :-) As Marty has suggested by his email, we are also likely to have NO HPC profile session on Thursday. All schedule change will announced by ogsa-wg mailing list and you can always get up-to-date schedule on the wiki page. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1555?nav=1 Stay tuned, we will keep you posted. -- Hiro Kishimoto

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HPC Profile meeting *ONLY* on tomorrow (Wed), not Thursday too
by Marty Humphrey 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Folks, Originally, we scheduled TWO meetings for the HPC Profile WG -- one for the GGF proper and the other for the subsequent F2F. We did this because we felt that we potentially had a lot to discuss. Over the past month or two, many of these issues have either (a) been resolved, or (b) properly delegated to the JSDL WG or BES WG as appropriate. In other words, we feel that it is appropriate to only have *ONE* session instead of two. Therefore, we are *CANCELING* the Thursday session in the OGSA F2F (which was supposed to meet Thursday at 3:30-5pm). Note that we decided to cancel Thursday's meeting as opposed to tomorrow's meeting because (a) we believe that discussions in the main GGF session would result in a larger and broader audience, and (b) both Marvin and I would have had to rush out of the meeting Thursday evening to try to satisfy travel constraints. We look forward to a productive meeting in our main GGF session, which is tomorrow 1:30 - 3:30 in 158 A-B. -- Marty Marty Humphrey Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Virginia

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OGSA and EGA Reference Model session at GGF18
by Hiro Kishimoto 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi all, I've update "OGSA and EGA Reference Model" session agenda at GGF18 wiki page based on the today's call discussion. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1560?nav=1 - or - http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=420&tentative <3> OGSA and EGA Reference Model * Date: Tuesday, September 12 * Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm * Location: 159A-B * Owner: Tom Maguire and Hiro Kishimoto * agenda o Brief high level summary of EGA Ref Model (Bob Thome?, 20 minutes) o Proposals for work + Glossary comparison (Jem Treadwell?, 15 minutes) # Identify similarities and differences between terminology. + ERG Ref Model and CDDLM (Dejan Milojicic?, 15 minutes) # Identify similarities and differences between EGA Ref Model's Dependency Graph & Life Cycle of Grid Components and CDDLM-WG's work. o Open discussion (40 minutes) + Work plan (new design team?) * Invite whom o CDDLM-WG * Invitation accepted o EGA RM-WG (Bob Thome, Dave Pearson, Paul Strong, Parviz Peiravi (by phone)) If you have any farther questions or comments, please let me know. -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Group Dinner Plan
by Hiro Kishimoto 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi all, We will have group dinner on Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday Group Dinner * Data/time: Tuesday evening (after OGF launch reception) * Rendezvous: GridWorld (not OGF) reception desk at 7pm * Bethesda Crab House, 4958 Bethesda Ave. Bethesda, MD, 301-652-3382, Open for dinner midnight daily. Thursday Group Dinner * Date/time: Thursday evening (after OGSA F2F meeting) * Rendezvous: IBM 1301 K. Street at 6pm * House BBQ by Mike Behrens (about 35 minutes away from downtown) https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1555?nav=1 Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Returned mail: Data format error
by ogsi-wg-owner＠ogf.org 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

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ws-naming comments from Sam Sun (CNRI)
by Frank Siebenlist 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

A few comments from Sam Sun <ssun(a)cnri.reston.va.us>: <sam-quote> > For the naming-spec, I don't see any major issues. One item that might > need to clearify is the mixed use of URI and IRI in the document. IRI > can be seen as a super set of URI because of its relaxed syntax > restriction. In section 4, it says > > EPI ... "MUST conformto URI syntax [RFC3987]." > > But RFC3987 is for the definition of IRI. I suppose the author(s) > really meant the IRI here (which will also be my selection). > > Such mixed use is also seen in a few examples given in the PortType > definition (e.g. "5.1.1 > <naming:endpoint-identifier>xsd:anyURI</naming:endpoint-identifier>"). > > I would suggest to go through the use of URI in the document and > replace them with IRI when appropriate. </sam-quote> Regards, Frank. -- Frank Siebenlist franks(a)mcs.anl.gov The Globus Alliance - Argonne National Laboratory

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New OGF presentation template
by Hiro Kishimoto 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Hi all, New OGF PowerPoint design template is now available. You can download it from Editor project on GridForge: http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc13782?nav=1 Thanks and have a good Labor Day holiday weekend. -- Hiro Kishimoto

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