1. OGF19 – Chapel Hill, NC, USA 30 January 2007
Data Area Review
OGF19 – Chapel Hill, NC, USA
30 January 2007
David E. Martin
Data Area Director
Grid Forum Steering Group

2. Data Area Review Welcome Erwin Laure, new Data Area AD
Data Access and Integration Services (DAIS-WG)
Base Specs Published, Looking at Data Access Services for RDF Data Resources
Production Implementation in OMII
Grid File Systems (GFS-WG)
Naming Spec Published, Plan to Work on Filesystem Profile
Prototypes from IBM, SDSC, UVA
Data Format Description Language (DFDL-WG)
Simplifying the Concepts and Trying to Remove Complexity to Shorten Draft Spec
Prototypes from LANL and IBM 2

3. Data Area Review (2) OGSA Data Movement Interface (OGSA-DMI-WG)
Collecting Use Cases
Grid Storage Management (GSM-WG)
Half a Dozen Implementations
Working on 3.0 Implementation and Spec
Information Dissemination (INFOD-WG)
Base Specs Published
Looking at Candidates for Follow-On Work
OGSA Data (OGSA-D-WG)
F2F in Edinburgh at end of Aug
Close to Finishing Architecture Document
Used as Basis for Gap Analysis 3

4. Data Area Review (3) Byte IO (ByteIO-WG) GridFTP WG (GridFTP-WG)
Spec Finished Comment, Need to Make Small Changes
Production Version from UVA, Will Be in OMII
GridFTP WG (GridFTP-WG)
Spec Published 3 Years Ago
Many Production Implementations
Need Experience Report for Full Standard
Storage Networking Community Group (SN-CG)
Actually in Enterprise Part of OGF
First Meeting at GGF18, Good Start
Follow-on to EGA Data Provisioning WG 4

5. Gap Analysis From Data Area Gaps Analysis Recent Interest Dependencies
Data Movement
Caching and Replication
Integrated Data Management
Transactions in a Grid
Recent Interest
Storage Provisioning
Virtualization
Provenance, Integrity, Policy, DRM
Dependencies
OGSA
Security: IETF, OGF
Management: DMTF, WS-RF/WS-Man Convergence
WS-*: OASIS and W3C 5

6. Gaps Based on OGSA-Data WG Report
Information Model for Data Resources
For Management, Resource Reservation, …
File Metadata
Streaming
Integration of Access and Transfer
3rd-Party Delivery
Replication, Caching, Catalogues, etc.
Consistency, Management
OGF-Wide Issues
Policy
Naming and Registries
Sessions
Provisioning
Security 6