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-R-P.204 " Usage Record - Format Recommendation." A. Cristofori, J. K. Nilsen, J. Gordon, M. Jones, J. A. Kennedy, R. Müller-Pfefferkorn. Via UR-WG. This document obsoletes #GFD.98 Abstract: For resources to be shared, sites must be able to exchange basic accounting and usage data in a common format. This document describes a common format which enables the exchange of basic accounting and usage data from different resources. This record format is intended to facilitate the sharing of usage information, particularly in the area of the accounting of jobs, computing, memory, storage and cloud usage but with a structure that allows an easy extension to other resources. This document describes the Usage Record components both in natural language form and annotated XML. This document does not address how these records should be used, nor does it attempt to dictate the format in which the accounting records are stored. Instead, it defines a common exchange format. Furthermore, nothing is said regarding the communication mechanisms employed to exchange the records, i.e. transport layer, framing, authentication, integrity, etc. -- 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