[occi-wg] XSD rendering of OCCI model(s)

Tue Dec 8 10:25:52 CST 2009

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your reply. As regards the schema, I have attached to this  
email some first effort on it. Apologies if emailing attachments is  
not acceptable here, I couldn't find my way around uploading to the  
gridforge. There are two files attached, a schema that corresponds to  
the spec, and one that imports it to reuse some data types, and  
extends to a number of elements that (I think) would be more  
convenient for use w/ WS-Agreement. The main problem is that, in WS- 
Agreement, the links are not really necessary; rather, one would just  
declare a service description (e.g. "compute"), its properties in a  
separate place (e.g. cores, speed, memory) and then in a third place  
(s)he would set numbers for those properties (e.g. 2 cores, 1.5GHz,  
etc). The same would then happen for storage, and for network.  
Grouping is then handled by the WS-Agreement envelope, using "Term  
Compositors". Arbitrary possible combinations of different resource  
requirements would be a problem to express without this (seemingly  
redundant) 2nd rendering in the additional schema file.

The schemas are still draft (read: a quick hack), so there may be many/ 
big mistakes. Please let me know if you have comments.

With regard to the cores data type, I am only puzzled by the  
(syntactical) correctness of the expression "occi.compute.cores =  
3.14159265" :) Nevertheless, the group has apparently had its  
discussions on the topic already, so it is fine.

Very best,

  Costas

On 8 Dec 2009, at 15:24, Gary Mazz wrote:

> Costas,
>
> I'm working on  a mapping of occi attributes to xds data types as  
> part of rdfa support in XHTML. We should coordinate efforts where  
> possible. I'm tied up for most of this week, I'll make better   
> progress  over the weekend,,,,, it looks like I'll be snowed or  
> frozen in.
>
> Numerating data types is always an interesting topic on this  
> list :-)   This document is in the OGF pipeline for comment, if  
> there are sections of the document that are unclear, missing,  
> incompatibilities with other efforts, we'll be glad to address them.
>
> Vlans are a network artifact/feature supported by a few providers.  
> Consensus was reached there was sufficient provider support to  
> warrant an attribute in the networking resource.
> cheers,
> gary
>
>
> Constantinos (Costas) Kotsokalis wrote:
>> Hi Thijs,
>>
>> Not a problem. I have actually already created something but it's   
>> fairly simplistic as it doesn't capture links, and it also  
>> wouldn't  help with WS-Agreement's concept of "service guarantees"  
>> on "service  properties" of "service descriptions". So I'll update,  
>> try to take  into account the concepts from the existing schema  
>> that are still  valid according to latest spec, and send to the list.
>>
>> BTW, two question regarding the spec -- apologies in advance if  
>> these  have been discussed before, as I just subscribed to the  
>> list. If so,  then please just point me to the archived thread if  
>> possible.
>>
>> 1. occi.compute.cores -- why is this a float, instead of an integer?
>> 2. Is there a use case for occi.network.vlan? I'm slightly confused  
>> by  its use in a cloud context.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  Costas
>>
>>
>> On 8 Dec 2009, at 14:41, Thijs Metsch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Costas,
>>>
>>> Right now these are not synced...sorry - Probably time we a)  
>>> update  it or b) remove it...:-) Can or do you wanna help with a)?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -Thijs
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Constantinos (Costas) Kotsokalis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to have an XSD rendering of the OCCI model(s), to  
>>>> embed
>>>> in WS-Agreement [1]. I have found some previous work in [2], but  
>>>> I am
>>>> not sure if this is synchronized with the latest spec draft(s) [3].
>>>> Could someone please confirm?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Costas
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.107.pdf
>>>> [2] http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewAttachment/projects.occi-wg/wiki/NounsVerbsAndAttributes/occi.xsd
>>>> [3] http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/occi-wg/2009-November/001517.html
>>>>
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