[GHPN-WG] Reflection on the GUNI presentation and discussion in GHPN RG last week!

[Zervas, Georgios]

Dear All 

Please find below a reflection on the GUNI presentation and discussion
last week in GHPN RG.

GUNI presentation (G. Zervas)

 

*         The presentation was focused on the updated version of the
Draft.

 

*         After presenting slides on contributors, structure and scope
of this draft, we provided a few slides on Usecases describing different
proprietary solutions developed or under development to interface Grid
and Network provisioning systems.

 

*         A long discussion on these slides (slides 10-18) was held
between the presenter, Eduard Escalona, Richard Hugues-Jones, John R.
Vollbrecht, Anand Patil, Inder Monga
<https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/global/do/viewUser/imonga>  and Cees de
Laat. The discussion concerned the interaction between Grid and Network
provisioning systems and how the network resources are provisioned.

 

*         On slide 21 there was also useful discussion and interaction
on the focus and the scope of this draft and in general the GUNI
specification. The contributors of this draft proposed that a vertical
interface (Grid-to-Network) can be also adapted for a horizontal one
(Network-to-Network). 

 

*         After a long discussion Richard Hugues-Jones suggested to
focus the work of GUNI only on the vertical interface (Grid service
layer and Network service layer). 

 

*         There was also a suggestion for incorporating the Grid
application requirements from Inder Monga. The involvement of experts
from the Grid Middleware WGs was proposed from Wolfgang Ziegler. 

 

*         It was also decided that there is a clear need to work towards
the formation of a working Group targeting the formal standardization of
the Interface.  A WG Charter will be submitted and a BoF will be
organized at OGF23 to consult the wider community.

On the following url you can find the latest version of the GUNI draft
(Grid User Network Interface v0.9.2
<https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15126?nav=1> ).

 

https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.ghpn-rg/
docman.root.current_drafts

 

The GUNI presentation given in OGF22 can be found below: 

 

https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.ghpn-rg/
docman.root.meeting_material_minutes.ogf22?_message=1204737661056

 

Best Regards,

George Zervas and Eduard Escalona

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