Minutes of the 18-Feb-2003 CGS-WG telephone conference

A CGS-WG telecon was held on Februrary 18, 2003 (8AM Pacific time). Attendees were:

Ellen Stokes (IBM)
Andrea Westerinen (DMTF and Cisco)
Peter Gietz (DAASI) stepping in later
Tom Roney (NCSA)

Agenda

1. Open issues with the JSIM doc and how fast to proceed
2. Status of planned Demos at GGF7
3. Dates for the next telecons

1. Open issues with the JSIM doc and how fast to proceed

   Andrea and Ellen discussed the latest version (dated 17 Feb 2003) of the JSIM, and agreed to make certain modifications to the UML document and the MOF.  Ellen will update the group with the latest revisions. It is proposed that we attempt completion of the JSIM by early June. This would mean that the proposed model could be incorporated into the DMTF's next (2.8) "train" (see http://www.dmtf.org/download/about/239-snia_workflow.pdf).

   Mid-March is the "train" for CIM 2.8 preliminary. So at GGF7 we'll need to decide whether to propose what we have or wait another 6 months for 2.9 preliminary. Ellen is tempted to say we cut and run because after a preliminary release there is a 6 month comment and use period to valid where changes can be made before it's made final.

   Peter proposes in that case that the discussion on list and phone should be high frequency until mid March

   Ellen says to expect a notification regarding a BOF at GGF7 (Wed night Mar 5) ... a proposed new work group would form to work on a Common Resource Model to describe the structure of a manageable resource as an OGSA service as well as a set of base resource (OGSA services) models. This group is spawned from the work of the OGSA working group.
    

2. Status of planned Demos at GGF7

   The demos planned for GGF7 are nearly complete. Tom must work further with Viktor to automate an event response.
   
   

3. Dates for the next telecons

Peter has proposed a new schedule for the next CGS conference calls: (Mar 11, Mar 25, Apr 8, Apr 22, May 6, May 27).  Two dates are a bit problematic:

• Mar 11/18
  Some people may still be in Japan March 11, perhaps taking extra time to see the sights. Others may need the time to catch up on work since being gone.

The meeting might be helpful to wrap up GGF7 results. Final decision to be made on the list.

• May 20/27
  May 20 was skipped in favor of May 27, because Peter would not be able to make the May 20 call. However, May 26 is a holiday in the U.S. and some people may be extending the long weekend through the 27th. Who will be able to make the call on the 27th? Enough to keep it scheduled? Or should we move it up to May 20? May 20, seems to be more reasonable then.

The CGS-WG has a bi-weekly teleconference on Tuesdays at these times:

08.00-09.00 US Pacific (e.g. Los Angeles)
09.00-10.00 US Mountain (e.g. Denver)
10.00-11.00 US Central (e.g. Chicago)
11.00-12.00 US Eastern (e.g. New York)
16.00-17.00 GMT UK (e.g. London)
17.00-18.00 Central Europe (e.g. Paris)
01.00-02.00 Japan (next day)

The next Telecon of the CGS-WG is scheduled for 8AM Pacific on Tuesday March 11, 2003.  The teleconference information is:

call-in number: 1 888 709 8699
international: 1 773 799 3951
passcode: 79215