Summary of conference call August 17, 2004 In attendance: Larry Flon Hemant S Kolwalkar Susan Malaika Tom Roney Reference for this meeting: From Minutes of Telecon 3-Aug-2004 Plan for next teleconference: Next telecon is scheduled for August 17. We will have a report from Hemant on MOF progress, and some answers from Larry about working with the DMTF. We will also plan our work at GGF12 in Brussels. GGF12: ----------------------------------------------- We have five weeks until GGF12. Hoping to discuss the CIM Tutorial, but, with Andrea not on the call, this may have to be an email exchange. Susan has a conflict with our Thursday-morning schedule for the CGS-WG. We will look into modifying the schedule such that the first Wednesday session will be reserved for the CGS/DAIS work. This will move the tutorial sessions, bumping each one to the next CGS-WG session, and running the last tutorial on Thursday morning. Larry will follow up with email, checking with the DMTF speakers to make sure this change in scheduling is not going to interfere with travel plans, etc. Our session hours are: Wed Sept 22 11-12:30, 3:30-5, 7:30-9 Thu Sept 23 9-10:30 We also have a day-long "orientation" Tue Sept 21 Review of interactions with DMTF: --------------------- What is the status of CIMv3 model? . . . So we can determine where we hook our work into. Waiting on the DMTF Architecture Working Group. Larry states that, according to Andrea, the class hierarchy will not change very much, so most DMTF working groups are working within the CIMv2 architecture. As for where we hang our work on the model, the DMTF's Database Woring Group is discussing it. As to whether we can use the DMTF Database Working Groups' documents . . . yes, it is free to use, but we must have a line of attribution within our work. Larry will begin work on the creation of a template for our document, gleaning what is pertinent from the DMTF docs. How much English language do we want to put into the GGF document vs. what is in the MOF? We will do something along the lines of the JSIM doc. What DAIS wants out of this is XML. Susan will discuss this with the DAIS group to see if this is going to be the responsibility of the CGS Working Group or not. What is required to get DMTF approval for the MOF we produce? The IBM Rose tool creates syntactically-correct MOF, and Andrea has said that she can do any manual overrides. Hement, and MOF progress: ----------------------------- This discussion is summarized in what is already stated above, in the above notes regarding the "Review of interactions with DMTF."