GGF - © Birds of a Feather - Policy Architecture Working Group

GGF - © Co – Chairs Rob Strechay – Darren Pulsipher – No Secretary yet is the list address Send to with subscribe policy-wg in the message Meetings every other Thursday 1700 GMT via Placeware (internet) and phone number For instructions on how to join go to Structure of Policy Architecture Working Group

GGF - © Agenda Introduction – agenda review Background – why Charter – how Deliverable – what Milestones – when Specific Document Discussion Discussion of the Policy Requirements Document Outline

GGF - © Background Policy-based management provides an abstraction that enables the definition of system behaviors that are independent of Grid implementations. Working groups in the IETF, IRTF, and DMTF have defined a policy framework and information model, and the DMTF continues to extend the information model to higher-level abstractions, that manage the business objectives via service-level agreements and service-level objectives, in addition to, the information model for the management of the underlying resources. In Grid environments, policy-based management may be used to provide scalable, implementation-independent configuration for a range of infrastructure resources, as well as the many other grid functions that perform resource allocation or user experience management.

GGF - © Group Interactions GGF Groups NPI WG - OGSA WG - SMF RG - Scheduling Area - External Groups IETF drafts/draft-ietf-policy-pcim-ext-08.txthttp:// drafts/draft-ietf-policy-pcim-ext-08.txt DMTF - IM_Policy27.mof IM_Policy27.mof Open Group Qos - Telemanagement Forum SNIA SMIS TWG Policy –

GGF - © Charter Redefine as RG (?) – scope (use cases and then requirements) Policy Definition - The Grid Policy Architecture Working Group will acquire the requirements and develop the architecture for interoperable policy based management, and for how the policies are described, evaluated, stored, managed, distributed, and enforced (maybe too broad). Since policies may also be associated with instrumentation to provide feedback into evaluating the effectiveness of the policies, the requirements and architecture should also provide a framework for associating the appropriate metrics and instrumentation with the policies. This group will not define what the policies, metrics and instrumentation will be, but will interface with other Working Groups such as those in the GGF Scheduling and Resource Management Area and the GGF Security Area whose charter it is to define the specifics.

GGF - © Revised Charter Redefine as RG (?) – scope (use cases and then requirements) Policy Definition - The Grid Policy Architecture Working Group will acquire the requirements for interoperable policy based management. This would be done for OGSA compliant and non-OGSA compliant grids. The goal is to define use cases, requirements, and span Working Groups to work on an architecture for describing, evaluating, storing, managing, distributing, and enforcing policy across grid instantiations. Since policies may also be associated with instrumentation to provide feedback into evaluating the effectiveness of the policies, the requirements and architecture should also provide a framework for associating the appropriate metrics and instrumentation with the policies. This group will not define what the policies, metrics and instrumentation will be, but will interface with other Working Groups such as those in the GGF Scheduling and Resource Management Area and the GGF Security Area whose charter it is to define the specifics. The Policy Research Group (Policy-RG) will look at and evaluate Policy Models that have been put forth by other Standards Bodies (such as DMTF, IETF, SNIA, etc …) for applicability.

GGF - © Deliverables Policy Requirements Document Policy Architecture Recommendation document Survey of Applications that support Policy Architecture

GGF - © Milestones GGF7 BOF Session at GGF7 Discussion of the Policy Requirements Document Outline Solicit additional contributors for the Policy Working Group GGF8 First Draft of Policy Requirements Document Finalize Architecture Recommendation Document Outline GGF9 Submission for review of the policy requirements document First Draft of the Policy architecture recommendation document GGF10 Handle issues of the policy requirements document review. Submission for review of the Policy architecture recommendation document (6 mo at least) Solicit contributors for survey paper of applications that follow the policy architecture GGF11 Handle issues of the policy architecture recommendation review. Submit Survey paper on applications that follow the policy architecture Disband the working group Edit timeline – push out too short time – especially GGF8

GGF - © Document Outline Review Grid Policy Architecture Requirements Document Abstract Definition of Policy 1.Terminology 2.Analysis 2.1Policy Real World Examples 2.2Actors 2.3Use Cases 2.4Primary Scenarios 3. Requirements Requirements Policy Conflict resolution 3.1Requirements 3.2Description 3.3a Distributed 3.3Evaluation 3.4Storage 3.5Management 3.6Enforcement 3.7Framework Characteristics 3.8Policy Definition Language Characteristics 4.Relationships with Technology 4.1Relationships with External Standards bodies 4.2Relationships with GGF Working Groups 5.Security Considerations 6.Author Information 7.Glossary 8.Intellectual Property Statement 9.Full Copyright Notice 10.References

GGF - © Next Steps and Notes Continue to Work on becoming a “official” WG Continue to work towards goal of draft by GGF8 Others … Check into AuthZ-wg RFC 2903 – 2906, 3334, and a draft