[cmm-wg] Closing words

[Fred Maciel]

Dear WG members,

     I just received a message from Greg Newby, the GGF editor, approving
our document for publication by the GGF. "This will be GFD #045."
     And this means that the CMM-WG has concluded its work. Successfully, in
unexpected ways.
     We were born to do "a set of port types that build on and supplement
OGSI that are of broad and general use for management in the Grid. Some of
these port types may have broader applicability elsewhere. It is expected
that this workgroup will work with other workgroups and standards bodies as
necessary." In the end, these words were realized by merging with the WSDM
TC, which produced a very high-quality spec that is of "broader
applicability".
     After merging with WSDM, we decided to do the gap analysis. And when we
started it, we discovered we didn't know what the whole was (without the
whole, you can't find gaps) -- in fact, we didn't even know what "resource"
meant. The result was the OGSA management framework (section 3.6 of the OGSA
document), which I think that was far more important than the gap analysis.
     Among all the people who participated in the CMM-WG, I'd like to
specially thank Ellen Stokes and David Snelling, from whose vision the WG
was born; to Jem Treadwell and Latha Srinivasan, for their constant
contributions; to Andrea Westerinen who, despite being permanently
triple-booked, always found time to help us; to the WSDM TC, for their great
work; and to all in the OGSA-WG, for lots of contributions.
     The CMM-WG is thus formally closed, but this is not the end. I've been
saying for more than a year that work continues, unchanged, in the OGSA-WG.
Well, in fact there will be changes -- I and Tom Roney are working on it -- 
and things will get quite interesting. Stay tuned.

See you all in the OGSA-WG,

Fred Maciel
ex-co-chair, CMM-WG