December 2012 - wg-all - lists.ogf.org

Save the Dates for 2013 OGF meetings and associated events! Also Happy Holidays for 2012 and best wishes for the New Year
by Sill, Alan 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

Dear OGF members, We are grateful for the work you have done over the past year. Speaking personally for a moment, I hope that as appropriate, you have had a great Hanukkah or will have a Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, end of year celebration or whatever celebration is appropriate for your particular choice of faith (or choice not to have one!); it is a true privilege to know each and every one of you. This has been a year of growth of the appreciation of OGF and its role in the standards landscape, and readjustment financially as we deal with more people participating in our activities remotely, less in in-person meetings, and adjustment to the broadened cloud, grid and distributed computing standards landscape. I think that the Big Data field, next on the growth horizon and clearly one in which the OGF community has much to say, is still in expansion but will be in need of our collective talents and skills in bringing community-based tools to that area of work in the near future; fortunately this is an area in which OGF already has a strong track record in related data transmission, interface and format description standards. This note is partly to let you know the following dates that have been put forward by the OGF Board, and of its decision to put more of the responsibility for organizing and bringing together OGF meetings into the Grid Forum Steering Committee and the Standards Council, which consists of your Area Directors. We hope that this will improve communication between the groups in each area and the organizing efforts, and will be a good match to the OGF Board's corresponding decision to base more of our events based on university campuses and other no-risk venues, where we can be sure to carry them out without existential impact to OGF if the event is not within budget. We think that this set of decisions places OGF on a sound, strong footing for the future. As you may also know, Steven Newhouse has decided to step down as OGF Board Chair after years of contributions at that level, and Andrew Grimshaw has agreed to take on this role as his replacement. These are the dates that have been discussed. The first is firm for OGF37 , and the announcement for it should go up on the OGF web site shortly. The rest remain to be confirmed, and this is your opportunity to communicate either directly with us or through your group chair and area director about your preferences, but we would like you to know about them at the earliest opportunity. OGF37 - University of Virginia - March 10-13th 2013 OGF38 - Maastericht, NL, 3-6th June 2013 - collocated with the Terena Networking Conference OGF39 - EGI Technical Forum - September 2013, Location TBC In addition, we expect to have another in the continuing series of Cloud Plugfest events that we have been co-organizing with ETSI and SNIA at or near OGF 37 (still under discussion), and there are several other events in series that have had significant OGF input that will take place, including Cloudscape V in Brussels Feb. 27-28, the OGF co-sponsored IEEE Cloudcom conference series, OGF sessions at the Open Science Grid All-Hands meeting to take place possibly by video (since the OSG AHM will take place on roughly the same dates as OGF37 in another city), and other opportunities for working group individual meetings or sessions during other conference series. Our interactions with the ISGC series have been light this year, but we hope to return on our bi-annual pattern to and OGF event at ISGC 2014 and will be in communication with you about this as needed during the upcoming year. 2013 will also include some other opportunities for Cloud Plugfest developer-oriented events. In 2013 these will include the following, in addition to OGF37 already mentioned: The Distributed Management Task Force Alliance Partners Technical Symposium, July July 22 - 26th in Portland, OR, USA (OGF is an Alliance Partner of DMTF.) The Storage Networking Industry Association Storage Developers Conference - Sept 16-20th in Santa Clara, CA, USA (OGF has a Memorandum of Understanding with SNIA and has worked together with it on the Cloud Plugfests for the past 2 years; opportunities may exist to expand this arrangement.) (The DMTF APTS is occurring on dates also occupied by the XSEDE 2013 conference, but we are not in control of the timing, so will probably try to send people and/or encourage them to attend both events.) Finally, on behalf of the GFSG and Standards Council, I would like to say that we wish you the very best in 2013 and hope that the communication door will remain open (carrier pigeon, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media or direct communication are welcome also!) for your ideas on how we can help continue to tune and improve our interactions with the OGF community. The past year has seen a switch to this leaner structure, the replacement of the OGF Sourceforge-based GridForge with the new Redmine tools, several productive events and a continuing steady stream of OGF documents published in our series. We hope 2013 will prove to be even more successful -- and look for a call for nominations for new OGF Area Directors and other leadership positions in the near future! Yours with deep appreciation, gratitude and respect, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Site Director, Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing at TTU and Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University

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Re: [wg-all] [ogf-board] Request for input for OGF submissions to the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing
by Craig Lee 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

David, Thanks for your update on these docs/efforts. Imho, part of the theme of our response to ITU is to demonstrate that the OGF community understands federation management issues! --Craig On 12/18/12 3:50 AM, David Chadwick wrote: > Hi Craig > > GFD.159 > the OASIS XACML TC has recently published a draft which shows how to > make a RESTful call to an XACML PDP. I am going to propose that > OpenStack adopts this (not sure what response I will get since it is XML > not JSON). If we go the restful route for cloud, then we should write a > supplementary short bit of text to say how GFD.159 and the OASIS draft > can fit together. We may also need a spec to say how an XACMLv2 request > context can be transferred as JSON rather than XML, since the OASIS > XACML group are only doing an XACMLv3 JSON spec. > > GFD.158 > This is the pull model for credentials. I think in our work with > OpenStack and VOMS we will use the push model instead. Note sure how > many systems support pulling credentials. > > GFD.157 > Not sure if any implementation other than PERMIS supports this. It seems > that many implementations do credential validation in the PEP rather > than in a separate service, and then they do not properly do credential > validation - they simply check the signature of the SAML assertion and > if it is OK, they say fine, the attributes are OK (which effectively > means that all IDPs are trusted to issue all attributes). > > regards > > David > > On 17/12/2012 23:52, Craig Lee wrote: >> Alan, >> >> I concur with all of your suggested documents. While these are >> presumably supposed to be cloud standards, I assume that we can propose >> standards that are arguable "cloud-relevant". (DFDL, WS-Agreement and >> WS-Agreement-Negotiation would all be in this category.) >> >> If federation and distributed resource management is a strong suit for >> OGF, and since it's relevant to federated clouds, what about the >> following documents concerning security and federation management: >> >> GFD.159 Use of XACML Request Context to Obtain an Authorisation >> Decision P-REC >> >> GFD.158 Use of SAML to retrieve Authorization Credentials P-REC >> >> GFD.157 Use of WS-TRUST and SAML to access a Credential Validation >> Service P-REC >> >> These are all P-RECs. In fact, in terms of "preparing our submission", >> do we want to pursue a "theme" of cloud federation as being the major >> value that OGF brings to the table? There are other INFO and CP docs >> that we could reference. >> >> What do others think? >> >> --Craig >> >> On 12/17/12 10:48 AM, Sill, Alan wrote: >>> Dear OGF Standards Council members and all area work group members, >>> >>> We have received the following formal invitation to contribute to the >>> ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing Cloud Standards >>> Roadmap effort, as described further in the attached document. >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF >>> >>> Source: JCA-Cloud >>> Title: Invitation to contribute to the cloud computing roadmap >>> population >>> >>> LIAISON STATEMENT >>> >>> For action to: ITU-T Study Groups SG 2, SG 5, SG 11, SG 12, SG 13, SG >>> 15, SG 16, SG 17, CT-CCVOCAB, CT-CCRA, TMForum, OMG-CSCC, ISMA, ISO/IEC >>> JTC1 SCs 6, 7, 27 and 38, OASIS, MEF, *OGF*, DMTF, CSA, SNIA, GICTF, >>> ISACA, ATIS CSF, ETSI TC Cloud, ETSI TC LI, IEEE Cloud Profiles Working >>> Group, IEEE Intercloud Working Group, IETF, BBF >>> >>> Agreed to at JCA-Cloud meeting (Geneva, 31 October 2012) >>> >>> Deadline: 18 February 2013 >>> >>> --- >>> >>> If there are no objections, I would like to propose to submit, without >>> loss of or change to the OGF copyright statement, the following OGF >>> published standards documents: >>> >>> DFDL (applicable to interchange of data between Software as a Service >>> application) >>> >>> GFD.174 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.174.pdf> Data Format >>> Description >>> Language (DFDL) v1.0 Specification >>> >>> GFD.190 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.190.pdf> Mapping between >>> DFDL 1.0 >>> Infoset and XML Data Model >>> >>> >>> WS-Agreement and WS-Agreement-Negotiation (applicable to service >>> agreement and SLA expression and parameter negotiation) >>> >>> GFD.192 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.192.pdf> Web Services >>> Agreement >>> Specification (WS-Agreement) >>> >>> GFD.193 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.193.pdf> WS-Agreement >>> Negotiation >>> Version 1.0 >>> >>> >>> OCCI 1.1 Core, Infrastructure and HTTP Rendering (applicable to >>> Infrastructure as a Service control and federation, with possible >>> applications to Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Clouds, >>> and also to software-defined networking infrastructure control) >>> >>> GFD.183 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.183.pdf> Open Cloud Computing >>> Interface - Core >>> >>> GFD.184 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.184.pdf> Open Cloud Computing >>> Interface - Infrastructure >>> >>> GFD.185 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.185.pdf> Open Cloud Computing >>> Interface - RESTful HTTP Rendering >>> >>> >>> In addition, I invite the OGF community to propose other documents for >>> submission, or to complete work on documents that can be referenced in a >>> summary to be submitted to ISO and the ITU-T, along with other cloud >>> roadmap efforts. For the purposes of this ITU-T submission, please take >>> note of the deadline and of the fact that it will take some time to >>> prepare our OGF documentation to accompany the submissions. >>> >>> If you have any questions, please feel free to explore the links below, >>> which can be accessed if you create yourself a guest account, and to >>> take note of the submissions already made by other participating >>> liaisons from other standards organizations. >>> >>> Thanks very much, and please let me hear from you. >>> >>> Alan Sill >>> OGF VP of Standards (acting as ITU-T JCA-Cloud liaison for OGF) >>> >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>>> *From: *"Kurakova, Tatiana" <tatiana.kurakova(a)itu.int >>>> <mailto:tatiana.kurakova@itu.int>> >>>> *Subject: **Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF* >>>> *Date: *December 17, 2012 12:17:24 PM CST >>>> *To: *"Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu <mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>" >>>> <Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu <mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>> >>>> *Cc: *"mmorrow(a)cisco.com <mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>" >>>> <mmorrow(a)cisco.com <mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>>, "Lee, Chae Sub (TIES)" >>>> <chae-sub.lee(a)ties.itu.int <mailto:chae-sub.lee@ties.itu.int>>, >>>> "jamil.chawki(a)orange.com <mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>" >>>> <jamil.chawki(a)orange.com <mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>>, >>>> "li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn <mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>" >>>> <li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn <mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>>, >>>> "dibrack(a)microsoft.com <mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>" >>>> <dibrack(a)microsoft.com <mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>>, 이강찬 >>>> (chan(a)etri.re.kr <mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>) <chan(a)etri.re.kr >>>> <mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>> >>>> >>>> Dear Mr.Sill, >>>> On behalf of ITU-T JCA-Cloud Chairman, Ms. Monique Morrow, I am >>>> pleased to send you the communication from the ITU-T Joint >>>> Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing group. Please find enclosed >>>> the Liaison Statement agreed by JCA-Cloud at its last meeting (31 >>>> October 2012) for OGF. It is for action before 18 February 2013. >>>> Thank you for acknowledging the receipt. >>>> Best regards, >>>> Tatiana Kurakova, >>>> TSB secretariat for JCA-Cloud >>>> International Telecommunication Union >>>> Place des Nations >>>> CH-1211, Geneva 20 >>>> Switzerland >>>> Tel.: +41 22 730 51 26 >>>> Fax: +41 22 730 58 53 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ogf-board mailing list >>> ogf-board(a)ogf.org >>> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-board >>> >> -- >> The wg-all mailing list is an umbrella list for all >> OGF mailing lists. If you are subscribed to any OGF >> mailing list, you will receive mails to wg-all. >> >> You can unsubscribe from this list on >> >> http://www.ogf.org/cgi-bin/perl/unsubscribe-wg-all.pl >> >> wg-all mailing list >> wg-all(a)ogf.org >> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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Request for input for OGF submissions to the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing
by Sill, Alan 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Dear OGF Standards Council members and all area work group members, We have received the following formal invitation to contribute to the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing Cloud Standards Roadmap effort, as described further in the attached document. --- Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF Source: JCA-Cloud Title: Invitation to contribute to the cloud computing roadmap population LIAISON STATEMENT For action to: ITU-T Study Groups SG 2, SG 5, SG 11, SG 12, SG 13, SG 15, SG 16, SG 17, CT-CCVOCAB, CT-CCRA, TMForum, OMG-CSCC, ISMA, ISO/IEC JTC1 SCs 6, 7, 27 and 38, OASIS, MEF, OGF, DMTF, CSA, SNIA, GICTF, ISACA, ATIS CSF, ETSI TC Cloud, ETSI TC LI, IEEE Cloud Profiles Working Group, IEEE Intercloud Working Group, IETF, BBF Agreed to at JCA-Cloud meeting (Geneva, 31 October 2012) Deadline: 18 February 2013 --- If there are no objections, I would like to propose to submit, without loss of or change to the OGF copyright statement, the following OGF published standards documents: DFDL (applicable to interchange of data between Software as a Service application) GFD.174<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.174.pdf> Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Specification GFD.190<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.190.pdf> Mapping between DFDL 1.0 Infoset and XML Data Model WS-Agreement and WS-Agreement-Negotiation (applicable to service agreement and SLA expression and parameter negotiation) GFD.192<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.192.pdf> Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement) GFD.193<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.193.pdf> WS-Agreement Negotiation Version 1.0 OCCI 1.1 Core, Infrastructure and HTTP Rendering (applicable to Infrastructure as a Service control and federation, with possible applications to Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Clouds, and also to software-defined networking infrastructure control) GFD.183<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.183.pdf> Open Cloud Computing Interface - Core GFD.184<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.184.pdf> Open Cloud Computing Interface - Infrastructure GFD.185<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.185.pdf> Open Cloud Computing Interface - RESTful HTTP Rendering In addition, I invite the OGF community to propose other documents for submission, or to complete work on documents that can be referenced in a summary to be submitted to ISO and the ITU-T, along with other cloud roadmap efforts. For the purposes of this ITU-T submission, please take note of the deadline and of the fact that it will take some time to prepare our OGF documentation to accompany the submissions. If you have any questions, please feel free to explore the links below, which can be accessed if you create yourself a guest account, and to take note of the submissions already made by other participating liaisons from other standards organizations. Thanks very much, and please let me hear from you. Alan Sill OGF VP of Standards (acting as ITU-T JCA-Cloud liaison for OGF) Begin forwarded message: From: "Kurakova, Tatiana" <tatiana.kurakova(a)itu.int<mailto:tatiana.kurakova@itu.int>> Subject: Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF Date: December 17, 2012 12:17:24 PM CST To: "Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>" <Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>> Cc: "mmorrow(a)cisco.com<mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>" <mmorrow(a)cisco.com<mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>>, "Lee, Chae Sub (TIES)" <chae-sub.lee(a)ties.itu.int<mailto:chae-sub.lee@ties.itu.int>>, "jamil.chawki(a)orange.com<mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>" <jamil.chawki(a)orange.com<mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>>, "li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn<mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>" <li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn<mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>>, "dibrack(a)microsoft.com<mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>" <dibrack(a)microsoft.com<mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>>, 이강찬 (chan(a)etri.re.kr<mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>) <chan(a)etri.re.kr<mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>> Dear Mr.Sill, On behalf of ITU-T JCA-Cloud Chairman, Ms. Monique Morrow, I am pleased to send you the communication from the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing group. Please find enclosed the Liaison Statement agreed by JCA-Cloud at its last meeting (31 October 2012) for OGF. It is for action before 18 February 2013. Thank you for acknowledging the receipt. Best regards, Tatiana Kurakova, TSB secretariat for JCA-Cloud International Telecommunication Union Place des Nations CH-1211, Geneva 20 Switzerland Tel.: +41 22 730 51 26 Fax: +41 22 730 58 53

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New document in public comment: URN Namespace for Network Resources
by Greg Newby 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Dear OGF members and affiliates: A new document has begun public comment. Please consider reading and providing feedback. Brief affirmations are very useful to demonstrate community input and support. More detailed analysis is also, of course, welcome. All documents in public comment are accessible here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment This document has been newly added for public comment: * URN Namespace for Network Resources. F. Dijkstra, J. vd. Ham, via NML-WG. -- Greg Newby, OGF Standards Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director 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

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New document published: Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2
by Greg Newby 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

OGF Community: A new document has been published in the OGF series. All OGF documents (including some that are open for public comment!) may be found here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/ * GFD-R.194 "Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA)"[Obsoletes GFD.22, GFD.130 and GFD.133]. Via DRMAA-WG. P. Tröger, R. Brost, D. Gruber, M. Mamoński, D. Templeton Abstract: This document describes the Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA). It defines a generalized API to Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems in order to facilitate the development of portable application programs and high-level libraries. The intended audience for this specification are DRMAA language binding designers, DRM system vendors, high-level API designers and meta-scheduler architects. Application developers are expected to rely on product-specific documentation for the DRMAA API implementation in their particular DRM system. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: gbnewby AT alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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