Eleven new documents were recently published by the Open Grid Forum. Some details on the documents may be found below. ======== This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-I.071. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: A Requirements Analysis for a Simple API for Grid Applications Authors/editors: Shantenu Jha & Andre Merzky Abstract: This document distills the use cases received by the Simple API for Grid Applications research group (SAGA-RG) and extracts the salient features into a set of requirements for the API In addition to the requirements drawn from the use cases, by analysing related ongoing developments in the grid community, this document tries to define further the scope and requirements of any simple API for applications. ======== This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.072. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: OGSA(TM) WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 Authors/editors: I. Foster, T. Maguire and D. Snelling Abstract: The growing number of Web services specifications makes it important to understand and define the interaction and use of these specifications to ensure interoperability. Within the context of basic Web services, it has proved useful to define normative profiles that provide guidance on issues of interoperability. One such profile is the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 [WS-I BP 1.1]. Guided by the principle of interoperation through conformance specification and operating in the wider technical domain of distributed system management and grid computing, we define here the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0, the first of a set of normative profiles addressing issues relating to distributed resource management and grid computing. The OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 described in this document is an OGSA Recommended Profile as Proposed Recommendation as defined in the OGSA Profile Definition [OGSA Profile Definition]. The OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 describes uses of widely accepted specifications that have been found to enable interoperability. The specifications considered in this profile are specifically those associated with the addressing, modeling, and management of state: WS-Addressing [WS-Addressing], WS-ResourceProperties [WS-ResourceProperties], WS-ResourceLifetime [WS-ResourceLifetime], WS-BaseNotification [WS-BaseNotification], and WS-BaseFaults [WS-BaseFaults]. ======== This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.073. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Application Contents Service Specification 1.0 Authors/editors: Keisuke Fukui Abstract: In order to install and operate complex systems such as three-tier systems more efficiently and automatically, it is essential to transfer and manage as a unit of various application-related information, which we call Application Contents. Application Contents may include deployable contents such as program binaries, configuration data, and descriptions of the hardware resources typically required for application execution as well as other contents such as descriptions of procedures for lifecycle management and management policies applied to the running system. In this document, we define Application Contents Service (ACS) to manage Application Contents. ACS is an OGSA service, which maintains Application Contents as an Application Archive. The ACS repository provides functions to retrieve the contents and their change histories. We also define a standard format of an Application Archive for its management and exchange. ======== This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.074. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Web Services Data Access and Integration -- The Core (WS-DAI) Specification, Version 1.0 Authors/editors: Mario Antonioletti, Malcolm Atkinson, Amy Krause, Simon Laws, Susan Malaika, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson, Greg Riccardi. Abstract: Data resources play a significant role in many applications across multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of networked resources. The GGF (Global Grid Forum) Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, defines consistent interfaces through web services to components of a grid infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces for data resources and the systems that manage them. This document presents a specification for a collection of generic data interfaces developed by the Database Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working Group that can be extended to support specific kinds of data resources, such as relational databases, XML repositories, object databases, or files. Related specifications define how specific data resources and systems can be described and manipulated through such extensions. The specifications can be applied in regular web services environments or as part of a grid fabric. ======== This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.075. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Web Services Data Access and Integration -- The XML Realization (WS-DAIX) Specification, Version 1.0 Authors/editors: Mario Antonioletti, Malcolm Atkinson, Amy Krause, Simon Laws, Susan Malaika, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson, Greg Riccardi. Abstract: Data resources play a significant role in many applications across multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of networked resources. The GGF (Global Grid Forum) Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, defines consistent interfaces through web services to components of the grid infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces for data resources and the systems that manage them. This document presents a specification for a collection of data access interfaces for XML data resources, which extends interfaces defined in the Web Services Data Access and Integration document [WS-DAI]. The specification can be applied in regular web services environments or as part of a grid fabric. ======== This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.076. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Web Services Data Access and Integration -- The Relational Realisation (WS-DAIR) Specification, Version 1.0 Authors/editors: Mario Antonioletti, Brian Collins, Amy Krause, Simon Laws, James Magowan, Susan Malaika, Norman W. Paton Abstract: Data resources play a significant role in many applications across multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of networked resources. The GGF (Global Grid Forum) Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, defines consistent interfaces through web services to components of the grid infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces for data resources and the systems that manage them. This document presents a specification for a collection of data access interfaces for relational data resources, which extends interfaces defined in the "Web Services Data Access and Integration" document [WS-DAI]. The specification can be applied in regular web services environments or as part of a grid fabric. ======== This information track document is now published as GFD-I.077. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Interoperability Testing for DAIS Working Group Specifications Authors/editors: Steven Lynden, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson Abstract: The Data Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working Group has submitted several specifications to the Global Grid Forum (GGF) recommendation track. This document proposes a process by which the interoperability of implementations of the specifications can be tested. The purpose of this document is to obtain sign-off on the proposed process so that the group can be confident that if the process is followed, a report on the implementation of the process will be accepted as an appropriate way of fulfilling the interoperability condition listed in [GFD.1]. ======== This information track document is now published as GFD-I.078. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Grid Security Infrastructure Message Specification Authors/editors: Von Welch Abstract: This document provides a description of the mechanism used to secure messages exchanged by the Globus Toolkit pre-web services and the format of portion of those messages related to security. It captures the message formatting performed by the Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) GSS-API libraries. It is applicable to developers wishing to interoperate with pre-web services GT services, including the GridFTP server. This information track document is now published as GFD-I.079. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Report for the GGF 16 BoF for Grid Developers and Deployers Leveraging Shibboleth Authors/editors: Von Welch Abstract: This document summarizes the BoF held across two 90 minutes sessions at GGF 16 in Athens for Grid developers and deployers leveraging Shibboleth. ======== This information track document is now published as GFD-I.080. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: The Open Grid Services Architecture, Version 1.5 Authors/editors: I. Foster, H. Kishimoto, A. Savva, D. Berry, A. Djaoui, A. Grimshaw, B. Horn, F. Maciel, F. Siebenlist, R. Subramaniam, J. Treadwell, J. Von Reich Abstract: Successful realization of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) vision of a broadly applicable and adopted framework for distributed system integration, virtualization, and management requires the definition of a core set of interfaces, behaviors, resource models, and bindings. This document, produced by the OGSA working group within the Global Grid Forum (GGF), provides a high-level OGSA definition. The document focuses on requirements and the scope of important capabilities required to support Grid systems and applications in both e science and e business. The capabilities described are Execution Management, Data, Resource Management, Security, Self-Management, and Information. The description of each capability includes, to some extent, possible interrelationships with other capabilities. Capabilities are, however, largely independent of each other and there is no requirement that they all be present in an OGSA system. Further, capabilities themselves are not monolithic and it is possible that only a subset of a given OGSA capability may be present in an implementation of an OGSA system. ======== This information track document is now published as GFD-I.081. You can download it here: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Title: Open Grid Services Architecture Glossary of Terms Version 1.5 Authors/editors: J. Treadwell Abstract: The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) document summarizes current understanding of the functionality required to implement a Grid infrastructure, and the rendering of this functionality into service definitions. In doing so, it uses many terms whose meanings may need clarification. Some of these terms are introduced and explained in the OGSA architecture document, while others are defined in other related documents. The purpose of this Glossary is to provide an unambiguous definition of such terms as they are used in the context of an OGSA Grid. It is intended to be read in conjunction with the OGSA architecture document, and does not by itself provide background information about Grids, nor attempt to justify the definitions or the context in which they may be used. The reader is referred to external documents for further explanation where necessary.