OGF Community: A new document has been published in the OGF series. All OGF documents (including any that are open for public comment) may be found here: www.ogf.org/gf/docs/ * GFD-CP.208 "On-Demand Infrastructure Services Provisioning Best Practices" P. Brzozwski, S. Campbell, T. Coulouarn, Y. Demchenko, F. Dijkstra, M. Giertych, JAG. Espin, E. Grasa, C. Guok, J. vd. Ham, R. Krzywania, T. Kudoh, M. Lemay, A. Takefusa, A. Willner, Y. Xin, via ISOD-WG Abstract: Abstract: The aim of this document is to provide an overview of best practices in on-demand provisioning of infrastructure services that includes both traditional Network Resources Provisioning Systems (NRPS) and emerging Cloud based infrastructure services. These provisioning processes must be both sufficiently explicit and flexible to dynamically instantiate complex task or project oriented infrastructures comprising of compute, storage, and application resources, as well network infrastructures interconnect them. The proposed document summarises discussions among members of the OGF ISoD Research Group and aims to facilitate conversations on achieving interoperability, and effective use and development of modern and future infrastructure services provisioning systems. -- 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@alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby