[wg-all] Eleven new documents published
Greg Newby
newby at arsc.edu
Sun Sep 10 14:59:10 CDT 2006
Eleven new documents were recently published by the
Open Grid Forum. Some details on the documents may
be found below.
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This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-I.071.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: A Requirements Analysis for a Simple API for Grid
Applications
Authors/editors: Shantenu Jha & Andre Merzky
Abstract:
This document distills the use cases received by the Simple API for
Grid Applications research group (SAGA-RG) and extracts the salient
features into a set of requirements for the API In addition to the
requirements drawn from the use cases, by analysing related ongoing
developments in the grid community, this document tries to define
further the scope and requirements of any simple API for
applications.
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This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.072.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: OGSA(TM) WSRF Basic Profile 1.0
Authors/editors: I. Foster, T. Maguire and D. Snelling
Abstract:
The growing number of Web services specifications makes it important
to understand and define the interaction and use of these
specifications to ensure interoperability. Within the context of
basic Web services, it has proved useful to define normative
profiles that provide guidance on issues of interoperability. One
such profile is the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 [WS-I BP 1.1]. Guided by
the principle of interoperation through conformance specification
and operating in the wider technical domain of distributed system
management and grid computing, we define here the OGSA WSRF Basic
Profile 1.0, the first of a set of normative profiles addressing
issues relating to distributed resource management and grid
computing.
The OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 described in this document is an
OGSA Recommended Profile as Proposed Recommendation as defined in
the OGSA Profile Definition [OGSA Profile Definition]. The OGSA WSRF
Basic Profile 1.0 describes uses of widely accepted specifications
that have been found to enable interoperability. The specifications
considered in this profile are specifically those associated with
the addressing, modeling, and management of state: WS-Addressing
[WS-Addressing], WS-ResourceProperties [WS-ResourceProperties],
WS-ResourceLifetime [WS-ResourceLifetime], WS-BaseNotification
[WS-BaseNotification], and WS-BaseFaults [WS-BaseFaults].
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This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.073.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Application Contents Service Specification 1.0
Authors/editors: Keisuke Fukui
Abstract:
In order to install and operate complex systems such as three-tier
systems more efficiently and automatically, it is essential to
transfer and manage as a unit of various application-related
information, which we call Application Contents. Application
Contents may include deployable contents such as program binaries,
configuration data, and descriptions of the hardware resources
typically required for application execution as well as other
contents such as descriptions of procedures for lifecycle management
and management policies applied to the running system.
In this document, we define Application Contents Service (ACS) to
manage Application Contents. ACS is an OGSA service, which maintains
Application Contents as an Application Archive. The ACS repository
provides functions to retrieve the contents and their change
histories. We also define a standard format of an Application
Archive for its management and exchange.
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This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.074.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Web Services Data Access and Integration -- The Core (WS-DAI)
Specification, Version 1.0
Authors/editors: Mario Antonioletti, Malcolm Atkinson, Amy Krause,
Simon Laws, Susan Malaika, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson, Greg
Riccardi.
Abstract:
Data resources play a significant role in many applications across
multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral
facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of
networked resources. The GGF (Global Grid Forum) Open Grid Services
Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, defines
consistent interfaces through web services to components of a grid
infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit
from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces
for data resources and the systems that manage them.
This document presents a specification for a collection of generic
data interfaces developed by the Database Access and Integration
Services (DAIS) Working Group that can be extended to support
specific kinds of data resources, such as relational databases, XML
repositories, object databases, or files. Related specifications
define how specific data resources and systems can be described and
manipulated through such extensions. The specifications can be
applied in regular web services environments or as part of a grid
fabric.
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This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.075.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Web Services Data Access and Integration -- The XML Realization
(WS-DAIX) Specification, Version 1.0
Authors/editors: Mario Antonioletti, Malcolm Atkinson, Amy Krause,
Simon Laws, Susan Malaika, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson, Greg
Riccardi.
Abstract:
Data resources play a significant role in many applications across
multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral
facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of
networked resources. The GGF (Global Grid Forum) Open Grid Services
Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, defines
consistent interfaces through web services to components of the grid
infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit
from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces
for data resources and the systems that manage them.
This document presents a specification for a collection of data
access interfaces for XML data resources, which extends interfaces
defined in the Web Services Data Access and Integration document
[WS-DAI]. The specification can be applied in regular web services
environments or as part of a grid fabric.
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This recommendation track document is now published as GFD-R.076.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Web Services Data Access and Integration -- The Relational
Realisation (WS-DAIR) Specification, Version 1.0
Authors/editors: Mario Antonioletti, Brian Collins, Amy Krause,
Simon Laws, James Magowan, Susan Malaika, Norman W. Paton
Abstract:
Data resources play a significant role in many applications across
multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral
facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of
networked resources. The GGF (Global Grid Forum) Open Grid Services
Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, defines
consistent interfaces through web services to components of the grid
infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit
from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces
for data resources and the systems that manage them.
This document presents a specification for a collection of data
access interfaces for relational data resources, which extends
interfaces defined in the "Web Services Data Access and Integration"
document [WS-DAI]. The specification can be applied in regular web
services environments or as part of a grid fabric.
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This information track document is now published as GFD-I.077.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Interoperability Testing for DAIS Working Group Specifications
Authors/editors: Steven Lynden, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson
Abstract:
The Data Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working Group has
submitted several specifications to the Global Grid Forum (GGF)
recommendation track. This document proposes a process by which the
interoperability of implementations of the specifications can be
tested. The purpose of this document is to obtain sign-off on the
proposed process so that the group can be confident that if the
process is followed, a report on the implementation of the process
will be accepted as an appropriate way of fulfilling the
interoperability condition listed in [GFD.1].
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This information track document is now published as GFD-I.078.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Grid Security Infrastructure Message Specification
Authors/editors: Von Welch
Abstract:
This document provides a description of the mechanism used to secure
messages exchanged by the Globus Toolkit pre-web services and the
format of portion of those messages related to security. It
captures the message formatting performed by the Grid Security
Infrastructure (GSI) GSS-API libraries. It is applicable to
developers wishing to interoperate with pre-web services GT
services, including the GridFTP server.
This information track document is now published as GFD-I.079.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Report for the GGF 16 BoF for Grid Developers and Deployers
Leveraging Shibboleth
Authors/editors: Von Welch
Abstract:
This document summarizes the BoF held across two 90 minutes sessions
at GGF 16 in Athens for Grid developers and deployers leveraging
Shibboleth.
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This information track document is now published as GFD-I.080.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: The Open Grid Services Architecture, Version 1.5
Authors/editors: I. Foster, H. Kishimoto, A. Savva, D. Berry,
A. Djaoui, A. Grimshaw, B. Horn, F. Maciel, F. Siebenlist,
R. Subramaniam, J. Treadwell, J. Von Reich
Abstract:
Successful realization of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
vision of a broadly applicable and adopted framework for distributed
system integration, virtualization, and management requires the
definition of a core set of interfaces, behaviors, resource models,
and bindings. This document, produced by the OGSA working group
within the Global Grid Forum (GGF), provides a high-level OGSA
definition. The document focuses on requirements and the scope of
important capabilities required to support Grid systems and
applications in both e science and e business. The capabilities
described are Execution Management, Data, Resource Management,
Security, Self-Management, and Information. The description of each
capability includes, to some extent, possible interrelationships
with other capabilities. Capabilities are, however, largely
independent of each other and there is no requirement that they all
be present in an OGSA system. Further, capabilities themselves are
not monolithic and it is possible that only a subset of a given OGSA
capability may be present in an implementation of an OGSA system.
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This information track document is now published as GFD-I.081.
You can download it here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final
Title: Open Grid Services Architecture Glossary of Terms Version 1.5
Authors/editors: J. Treadwell
Abstract:
The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) document summarizes
current understanding of the functionality required to implement a
Grid infrastructure, and the rendering of this functionality into
service definitions. In doing so, it uses many terms whose meanings
may need clarification. Some of these terms are introduced and
explained in the OGSA architecture document, while others are
defined in other related documents.
The purpose of this Glossary is to provide an unambiguous definition
of such terms as they are used in the context of an OGSA Grid. It
is intended to be read in conjunction with the OGSA architecture
document, and does not by itself provide background information
about Grids, nor attempt to justify the definitions or the context
in which they may be used. The reader is referred to external
documents for further explanation where necessary.
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