GGF Document Series Growing

GGF groups experiencing unprecedented productivity

With three recent additions to the growing GGF Document Series and over ten more currently in public comment, GGF is experiencing a record-breaking year for producing high-quality grid specifications and informational documents.

GFD.53 entitled "Defining the Grid: A Roadmap for OGSA™ Standards v 1.0" is a highly informative document that answers a number of questions about the role and future of Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) both within GGF and in the broader distributed computing industry. The authors for the OGSA Roadmap are H. Kishimoto and J. Treadwell.

GFD.52 entitled "A GridRPC Model and API for End-User Applications" provides a model and API for Grid Remote Procedure Call (GridRPC). This API is intended primarily for end-user applications and not grid middleware. Authors of GFD.52 include H. Nakada, S. Matsuoka, K. Seymour, J. Dongarra, C. Lee, and H. Casanova.

Finally, GFD.51 entitled "Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management (CDDLM) SmartFrog-Based Language Specification" is one of five documents to be produced by the CDDLM-WG. This document, authored by P. Goldsack, provides a definition of the CDDLM language that is based on SmartFrog (Smart Framework for Object Groups) and its requirements.

These and the entire GGF Document Series may be found here.

In addition to the three recently published documents, eight different GGF groups have submitted over ten draft documents which are in public comment period. The GGF community and interested parties outside of GGF are encouraged to read and comment on any of these documents at the public comment page.