This is a charter proposal for the CIM BoF at GGF 5.

Charter of the CIM based Grid Information Services Working Group

Administrative

Description and objectives

Focus and Purpose

The CIMGIS working group wants to define a new Grid information model based on the Common Information Model (CIM) that is being standadized by the DMTF (www.dmtf.org). The WG will evaluate whether CIM can be used as a common Grid Information model which would replace the work on Grid Object Specification activity. A common information model is needed as base of interoperability between the object definitions of the different Grid Working Groups.

The DMTF CIM is one of the approaches in the industry for enabling the management of real world managed objects that applies the basic structuring and conceptualization techniques of the object-oriented paradigm. CIM is capable of defining all real world managed objects that occur in computer and network environments. CIM consists of a specification that describes a modeling language and syntax for defining real world managed objects, a management schema for real world managed objects, a protocol that encapsulates CIM syntax and schema to provide access to those real world managed objects, and a compliance document for interoperability between vendor implmentations. CIM has cross-platform and cross-vendor support. There are mappings for the CIM definitions to XML and LDAP, which both are core technologies in the frame of Grid computing. There are trends in the OGSA initiative to use CIM.

The results of this working group will help in the creation of an interoperable Grid architecture, and will thus have impact on deployment and operations. Since it is work on a meta information model no special security issues will have to be addressed.

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