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

[Pete Ziu]

Hi folks, sorry for the long absence.  Very interesting.  So we now  
have three of these in the mix with varying scopes?  (SDD-TC, CDDLM,  
and SML).

Pete.


On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Keisuke Fukui wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>
>
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