Current Drafts 

The GGF document process involves several steps, as detailed in GFD-C.1. GGF documents generally begin within Working Groups and Research Groups. They are then submitted, upon completion, for review by the GFSG, and are published as part of the GGF document series, based on GFSG review and public comment.  There are multiple document types (informational, experimental, community-practice, and recommendations), largely modeled after the IETF RFC series.

GGF9 Submitted Documents - View all documents that will be presented in Working and Research Group Sessions at GGF9.

The drafts below were submitted for discussion at GGF8 and are categorized by area and group.  The most complete list may be found on GridForge at this link.

AREA: Applications and Programming Environments

  • Grid Checkpoint Recovery (GridCPR) WG
    • Title: An Architecture for Grid Checkpoint Recovery Services and a GridCPR API - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): Derek SImmel, Thilo Kielmann, Nathan Stone
  • Grid User Services (GUS) WG
    • Title: Trouble Ticket Exchange Specification - PDF
      • Author(s):
    • Title: Support Services and Tools Requirements - PDF
      • Author(s): Jim Giuliana
    • Title: Grid Constitution - PDF
      • Author(s): George Myers
    • Title: Grid Computing Environment Shells - PDF
      • Author(s): Marlon Pierce, Geoffery Cox
  • Grid Computing Environments (GCE) WG
    • Title: Overview of Grid Computing Environments - PDF
      • Author(s): G. Fox, M. Pierce, D. Gannon, M. Thomas

AREA: Architecture

  • Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) WG
    • Title: Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): S. Tuecke, K. Czajkowski, I. Foster, J. Frey, S. Graham, C. Kesselman, D. Snelling, P. Vanderbilt
    • Title: Java OGSI Hosting Environment Design - A Portable Grid Service Container Framework - PDF
      • Author(s): Thomas Sandholm, Steve Tuecke, Jarek Gawor, Rob Seed, Tom Maguire, John Rofrano, Scott Sylvester, Scott Sylvester, Mike Williams
  • Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) WG
    • Title: The Open Grid Services Architecture Platform - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): I. Foster, D. Gannon
    • Title: Reporting Grid Services (ReGS) Specification - PDF
      • Author(s): Yariv Aridor, Dean Lorenz, Benny Rochwerger, Bill Horn, Hany Salem
    • Title: Common Resource Model (CRM) - PDF
      • Author(s): E. Stokes, N. Butler
  • Grid Protocol Architecture (GPA) RG
    • Title: Abstraction of functions for resource brokers - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): John Brooke and Donal Fellows
    • Title: Core Grid Functions: A Minimal Architecture for Grids - Working Draft, Version 3.1 - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): W. Johnston, J. Brooke
    • Title: Common Consistency Requirements for Data Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent Archives- PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): Reagen Moore

AREA: Data

  • Database Access and Integration Services (DAIS) WG
    • Title: Grid Database Access and Integration: Requirements and Functionalities - PDF
      • Author(s): Malcolm P. Atkinson, Vijay Dialani, Leanne Guy, Inderpal Narang, Norman W. Paton, Dave Pearson, Tony Storey and Paul Watson
    • Title: Grid Database Service Specification - PDF
      • Author(s): Neil Chu Hong, Amy Krause, Susan Malaika, Gavin McCance, Simon Laws, James Magowan, Norman W. Paton and Greg Riccardi
    • Title: Services for Data Access and Data Processing on Grids - PDF
      • Author(s): Vijayshankar Raman, Inderpal Narang, Chris Crone, Laura Haas, Susan Malaika, Tina Mukai, Dan Wolfson, Chaitan Baru
    • Title: Grid Database Service Specification - PDF
      • Author(s): Neil P Chue Hong, Amy Krause, Susan Malaika, Gavin McCance, Simon Laws, James Magowan, Norman W. Paton, Greg Riccardi
  • Persistent Archives (PA) RG
    • Title: Persistent Archive Basic Components - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): Reagan W. Moore, Andre Merzky

AREA: Information Systems and Performance

AREA: Peer-to-Peer

AREA: Scheduling and Resource Management

  • Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol (GRAAP) WG
    • Title: Advance Reservations : State of the Art - PDF, HTML
      • Author: Jon MacLaren
    • Title: Usage Scenarios for a Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol - PDF
      • Author(s): Karl Czajikowski, Stephen Pickles, Jim Pruyne, Volker Sander
  • Grid Economic Services Architecture (GESA) WG
    • Title: Grid Economic Services Architecture (GESA) - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): S. Newhouse, K. Keahey
    • Title: GESA Use Cases - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): S. Newhouse, J. MacLaren, K. Keahey
  • Usage Record (UR) WG
    • Title: Usage Record Fields Survey Results and Proposed Minimum Set - PDF
      • Author(s): Mi Young Koo
    • Title: Accounting Interchange Natural Language Description (Requirements) - PFD, DOC
      • Author(s): Rodney Mach
  • Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) WG
    • Title: Distributed Resource Management Application API Specification - PDF
      • Author(s): Hrabri Rajic, Roger Brobst, Waiman Chan, Fritz Ferstl, Jeff Gardiner, John P. Robarts, Andreas Haas, Bill Nitzberg, Hrabri Rajic, John Tollefsrud

AREA: Security

  • Open Grid Service Architecture Security (OGSA-SEC) WG
    • Title: Use of SAML for OGSA Authorization - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): Von Welch, Frank Siebenlist, Sam Meder, Laura Pearlman
    • Title: A GSSAPI profile for security context establishment and message protection using WS-SecureConversation and WS-Trust - PDF, DOC
      • Author(s): Samuel Meder, Frank Siebenlist, Von Welch, Jarek Gawor, Thomas Sandholm
    • Title: Security Architecture for Open Grid Services - PDF
      • Author(s): Nataraj Nagaratnam, Anthony Nadalin, Philippe Janson, Frank Siebenlist, Von Welch, Steven Tuecke, Ian Foster
  • Grid Certificate Policy (GCP) WG
    • Title: An Analysis of the UNICORE Security Model - PDF
      • Author(s): T. Goss-Walter, R. Letz, Dr. T. Kentemich, H.C. Hoppe, P. Weider
    • Title: CA-based Trust Model for Grid Authentication and Identity Delegation - PDF
      • Author(s): Mary R. Thompson, Doug Olson, Robert Cowles, Shawn Mullen, Mike Helm
  • CA operations (CAOPs) WG
    • Title: Machine Assisted Trust Mechanisms for Grids - PDF
      • Author(s): Paul Madsen, Mike Helm, Tony J. Genovese
    • Title: Grid Certificate Extensions Profile - PDF
      • Author(s): Michael Helm
    • Title: Grid PKI Disclosure Statement - PDF
      • Author(s): Tony J. Genovese, Michael
    • Title: Common Grid Certificate Authority Names and Naming - PDF
      • Author(s): Michael Helm, Tony Genovese
    • Title: Certificates for Automated Clients - PDF
      • Author(s): Stephan Chan, Matt Crawford
  • Authorization Frameworks and Mechanisms (AuthZ) WG
    • Title: Conceptual Grid Authorization Framework and Classification - PDF
      • Author(s): Rich Baker, Leon Gommans, Andrew McNab, Markus Lorch, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Sankar, Mary R. Thompson
  • Site Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) RG
    • Title: Accounting Section - PDF
      • Author(s): Shawn Mullen