Groups align to deliver cross-industry standards

As part of the Liaison area objectives, GGF has been developing working relationships with a number of Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) including DMTF, IETF, ITU-T, OASIS, SNIA, TMF, and W3C. GGF has been carrying on a dialogue for almost a year – holding several face-to-face meetings and monthly conference calls to improve coordination on next generation standards. As standards organizations, we share a common interest in exploring communication mechanisms and projects that can speed the delivery of industry standards while better communicating interactions, dependencies and status to sponsors and the industry at large.

The scope of our work together centers around the standards associated with the management of resources – a critical area for the future of grids and distributed computing. We have agreed to form a cross institutional working group within GGF and are pursuing a first deliverable – a “landscape document” designed to provide information regarding the definitions, taxonomy and interplay of the various specifications of each respective organization. This activity is called “Standards development organizations Collaboration on networked Resources Management” or SCRM (pronounced scrum). Participation in this group is not exclusive; any other SDO that is interested and has relevant expertise is also very welcome to join the SCRM. For more information, you may contact any of the following:

SCRM-WG Co-Chairs:
Jay Unger, GGF, IBM (unger@us.ibm.com)
Mark Carlson, SNIA, Sun Microsystems (mark.carlson@sun.com)
Area Director of Liaisons:
Hiro Kishimoto, Fujitsu (hiro.kishimoto@jp.fujitsu.com)

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