[ogsa-wg] Teleconference minutes - January 26, 2005

[Keisuke Fukui]

Folks,

This is an update for the ACS-WG (Application Contents Service WG) mentioned
in the minutes.

Please join yourself and those who are interested into the acs-wg mailing list.
To do so, you can send mail to <Majordomo at ggf.org> with the following command
in the body of your email message:

     subscribe acs-wg your-mail-address

Also, we will have sessions at GGF13. We welcome you to join so please
prepare for it! I will let you know when the schedule is decided.

Here are the ACS-WG project page:
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg

I have added slides and docs for those who want to join the discussion newly:
- Working drafts:
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewCategory.php?group_id=147&category_id=889

- GGF12 Slides:
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewCategory.php?group_id=147&category_id=891

Regards,
Keisuke Fukui
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.


Andreas Savva wrote:
> Minutes attached.
> 
> Gridforge:
> https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20050126/en/1
> 
> --
> Andreas Savva
> Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
> 
> 
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> 
> OGSA teleconference -  26 January 2005
> ======================================
> 
(snip)
> * ACS-WG approval
> 
>   - Hiro mentioned that a new OGSA-related working group---ACS-WG---
>     has been approved. There was a presentation about it in a past
>     OGSA F2F and a mention in the OGSA version 1.0.
>   - ACS stands for Application Contents Service. It is a kind of
>     repository service, including archive format, for all data related
>     to deploying and configuring applications. It is related to (but
>     not overlapping with) CDDLM.
>   - The BoF was held during GGF12. 
>   - It is Business Grid project initiated. Initial draft is based on
>     technology developed by the project.
>   - There is a relation between ACS and SolutionInstallion recently
>     published by IBM and others. There is discussion on defining a
>     common archive format. (Issue raised during the GGF12 BoF.)
>     - Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu), Peter Ziu (Northrop Grumman) and Tom
>       Studwell (IBM) are the co-chairs
>