To all OGF group members and affiliates:
Several documents are now in public comment for the OGF document
series, prior to publication.
Please consider reading these documents, and providing your comments
to the document authors via the link provided for each document.
Brief comments are welcome, not only detailed analysis. Public
comments are an excellent indication of community interest and support
for a document.
* Functional Components of Grid Service Provider Authorisation Service
Middleware [will be available for comment shortly]
* HPCBP Advanced Filter Extension
* Policy for Supporting Grid and e-Science Education and Training
* Towards Professional Grid Certification
* Requirements on operating Grids in Firewalled Environments
* Use of SAML to retrieve Authorization Credentials
* Use of WS-TRUST and SAML to Access a Credential Validation Service
All documents in public comment may be reached at this Web address:
http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment
We have also had some documents published recently, which will be the
subject of a few other email messages from me.
See you in Singapore for OGF24!
-- Greg Newby, OGF Editor
Dr. Gregory Newby, Chief Scientist of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020
e: newby AT arsc.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby
Several documents are now in public comment. Due to some problems
with the Gridforge trackers, we extended a few public comment periods
to allow sufficient time for comments.
Please consider reading these documents, and providing your comments
to the document authors via the link provided for each document.
Brief comments are welcome, not only detailed analysis. Public
comments are an excellent indication of community interest and support
for a document.
* ISV Remote Computing Usage Primer [will be available shortly]
* GLUE Specification v. 2.0
* GLUE v. 2.0 - Reference Realizations to Concrete Data Models
* Use of XACML Request Context to Obtain an Authorisation Decision
* HPCBP Advanced Filter Extension
* Functional Components of Grid Service Provider Authorisation Service
Middleware
* Implementation and Interoperability Experiences with the Job
Submission Description Language (JSDL) 1.0
All documents in public comment may be reached at this Web address:
http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment
-- Greg Newby, OGF Editor
All - On behalf of OGF President Craig Lee:
Robert Fogel's term as VP of Enterprise has come to a close and we
are making an open call for nominations for this position.
The VP of Enterprise is responsible for promoting all effective
distributed computing technologies in the enterprise and other
industrial domains. This person will work with the Area Directors
and other leaders in OGF's Enterprise Function to engage various
industry verticals, organize workshops at both OGF events and other
venues, comprehend industry requirements, and promote the adoption of
OGF standards. Duration of term, typically three years, is
negotiable. This call will close 10 October, 2008.
Nominations may be made via the following web form:
http://www.ogf.org/nomcom/nomination.php
We would like to thank Robert Fogel for his service as the VP of
Enterprise and express our best wishes for his future endeavors.
Thanks,
Joel
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Joel Replogle Director, Open Grid Forum
replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org
