[ACS-WG] [acs-wg] Service Modeling Language (SML)

[Keisuke Fukui]

I think the schematron may be another missing link in XML world since after
emergence of the XML Schema, and the SML can be a successful practice
of it. The problem is that I am a bit behind the band:-p
I will appreciate it if you fill in your idea occasionally.

  -Keisuke

Michael Behrens wrote:
> I agree that it is a step ahead.  ACS could manage an SML XML document 
> descriptor as well. :)
> SML seems to me at first glance to weave together management and 
> deployment/provisioning and potentially more.  If a "complete" model is 
> rendered, then the model could be used to drive everything from 
> determining where to best provision something (based on the use of 
> constraints), and then know how to manage the system and dependencies.  
> Maybe I'm reading too much into it for now - I'll need to study it more 
> and try to figure out all the places where it can be applied.  It will 
> be interesting to see their scenarios.
> There is also a mention of a database to store and distribute models 
> using the SML-IF potentially - a familiar pattern.
> 
> Keisuke Fukui wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Mike!
>>
>> This sounds like a step ahead practice than today's framework. It may
>> help us to do things more clearly. What is your idea on this?
>>
>>  -Keisuke
>>
>> Michael Behrens wrote:
>>