APPLICATIONS

Global Grid Forum, today announced a collaboration with leading technology Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) to coordinate and communicate standards for the management of networked resources. Organizations expected to participate in this round-table style collaboration include: the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the Global Grid Forum (GGF), the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and the Tele Management Forum (TMF),. Other standards development organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have expressed an interest and will encourage their technical experts to participate in this activity. To support this collaboration a public working group within the GGF is being established and anyone with relevant technical skills, interest and commitment can participate. While the working group is organized within GGF this does not mean GGF will lead the technical activity. Rather, GGF will provide the necessary infrastructure and organization to support these activities. This working group in GGF will be known as the Standards Development Organization Collaboration on Networked Resources Management (SCRM). Most SDOs already have many one-to-one liaison relationships which are effective and productive for handling specific issues. This round table-style collaboration provides a "bird's eye view" of this broad and complicated technical area, helping further the work already underway between these leading standards bodies. This is the main reason SCRM was born. The organizations involved have agreed to form a cross institutional working group (SCRM-WG) open to everyone within SCRM to sketch a current landscape of standard specifications and share a futuristic view of the management of resources used in a network or individually. These standards include the functions of discovery, deployment, resource availability, statefulness, event coordination, notification and lifecycle tracking over a set of resources including data objects as well as physical objects like devices. SCRM-WG is building a landscape document designed to provide information regarding the definitions, taxonomy and interplay of the various specifications of each respective organization.