Working group

The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of OASIS, is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information. As its name suggests, SAML allows business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes, and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise application.
 
If you are a manager looking for a high-level overview of SAML, the Executive Overview is recommended. If you are looking for a technical introduction to SAML concepts and capabilities, it is recommended to start with the Technical Overview. Additional technical information, including the complete set of SAML specifications, can be found in the knowledgebase at saml.xml.org.

The Storage Management Initiative Technical Work Group (SMI TWG) is responsible for the maintenance and evolution of the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). SMI-S defines an interface for the interoperable management of a heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN). It describes the information available to a WBEM Client from an SMI-S compliant CIM Server via an object-oriented, XML-based, messaging-based interface designed to support the specific requirements of managing devices in and through SANs.

The Solid State Storage Technical Work Group has been created for the purpose of developing standards related to system implementations of Solid State Storage technology.
The Solid State Storage TWG:

• Acts as the primary technical entity for the SNIA to identify, develop, and coordinate systems standards for Solid State Storage.
• Produces a comprehensive set of specifications and drives consistency of interface standards and messages across the various Solid State Storage related efforts.
• Documents system-level requirements and shares these with other Solid State Storage standards organizations under the guidance of the SNIA Technical Council and in cooperation with the SNIA Strategic Alliances Committee.

SOA End-to-End Resource Planning is a technology that optimizes deployment of services onto a SOA description of an application. The focus in EERP is on the characterization of the business characteristics of a service (called Business Quality of Service in the references listed under External Resources below), characterization and accessing the reputation of potential service providers, and Business Service-Level Agreements. See the EERP white paper approved by the committee for details and future direction.
 
The SOA-EERP Technical Committee will focus on enablers for optimization. The enablers are, for example, definitions of the framework for representing the business process service rating terms, such how to represent cost, time, value, etc. We define "optimization" as maximizing business value by enabling improved real-life eBusiness process and resource planning at both design time and run time. In particular,

• Resources are services performed by people, machines, and hardware/software applications, and represented by SOA services. Defining the qualities of such a business service will be done with metrics expressed as Business Quality of Service (BQoS). The nature of BQoS varies across industries and services.
• Business processes are optimized in order to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and otherwise improve business results. Extensions to Business Process Management Notation and execution environments such as WS-BPEL will facilitate process improvement through automatic optimization and evolution.

The Solid State Storage System (S4) TWG was created for the purpose of addressing the unique performance behavior of solid state storage systems. The TWG creates specifications which provide guidance to accurately measure the performance of enterprise arrays as oppose to devices. These specifications are vendor agnostic and support all the solid state storage system technologies of member companies.

The S4 TWG:

• Acts as the primary technical entity for the SNIA to identify, develop, and coordinate system performance standards for solid state storage systems
• Produces a comprehensive set of specifications and drives consistency of measurement guidelines and messages related to solid state storage systems
• Documents system–level requirements and shares these with other performance standards organizations under the guidance of the SNIA Technical Council and in cooperation with the SNIA Strategic Alliances Committee

The OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model TC develops a reference model to encourage the continued growth of different and specialized SOA implementations whilst preserving a common layer of understanding about what SOA is.
 
The TC will:
 
-- deliver a Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model (SOA-RM) and, if it elects, ancillary materials as described under "purpose" above.
 
-- allow the commission of sub-committees to create specialized SOA models for vertical industries or technology families.
 
-- propose usage and implementation guidelines for creating specializations of the reference model, whether as a formal methodology or as best practice guidelines.

The SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) TC defines a common data model for SOA repositories as well as an interaction protocol to facilitate the use of common tooling and sharing of data. The TC will define an ATOM binding which documents the syntax for interaction with a compliant repository for create, read, update, delete and query operations.

The FG DFS is an open platform for digital financial services stakeholders – such as telecom regulators; financial services regulators; digital financial services providers, payment platform providers; mobile network operators; international organizations and industry forums and consortia – to share knowledge and lessons learned in the field with the objective of identifying the standardized frameworks needed to support the scaling up of digital financial services usage globally.

The goal of TC CLOUD is to address issues associated with the convergence between IT (Information Technology) and Telecommunications. The focus is on scenarios where connectivity goes beyond the local network. This includes not only Cloud computing but also the emerging commercial trend towards Cloud computing which places particular emphasis on ubiquitous network access to scalable computing and storage resources.
 
Since TC CLOUD has particular interest in interoperable solutions in situations which involve contributions from both the IT and Telecom industries, the emphasis is on the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery model. TC CLOUD focuses on interoperable applications and services based on global standards and the validation tools to support these standards. Evolution towards a coherent and consistent general purpose infrastructure is envisaged. This will support networked IT applications in business, public sector, academic and consumer environments.
 
The approach is to complement existing activities in ETSI and other standards development organisations. TC CLOUD is expected to fulfil a specific role as a forum in which to develop consensus within the telecommunications sector which can then be represented in other bodies. It can also act to introduce new requirements into networking (e.g. NGN) standards which support new application paradigms such as Grid and Cloud.

ISG NFV has developed over 80 different reports and specifications for the virtualisation of network functions. NFV publications describe and specify virtualisation requirements, architecture framework, functional components and their interfaces, as well as the protocols and the APIs for these interfaces. ISG NFV also studies VNF performance, reliability, and resiliency matters, analyses the security challenges linked to virtualisation (trust, attestation, regulation). NFV specifies requirements for Management and Orchestration, for hardware acceleration, etc. And a lot is ongoing!

The aim of this working group is to define an XML-based language, the Data Format Description Language (DFDL), for describing the structure of binary and textual files and data streams so that their format, structure, and metadata can be exposed.

• Projekt-Homepage: http://www.ogf.org/dfdl
• GridForge Project (historical): http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/dfdl-wg