DMTF-OGF Alliance Partnership Partnership Resolutions1 23 July 2007 Recommendations with Resolutions GOAL: Encourage wider participation and acceptance of CIM and provide a meaningful basis for the yearly DMTF Alliance Partner Conference and the DMTF Management Development Conference  Improve DMTF Processes –Address Alliance Partner comments to document/schema submitted via DMTF web site (start to closure) –Alliance work register process to capture acknowledgement and buy-in from the workgroups and committees up-front through required voting and workgroup participation in work register items –Resolutions DMTF web site will be the only way to submit comments on published documents. Web site will be updated to state this. DSP 4002 (Committee & Workgroup Processes) and 4003 (Alliance Processes) will be updated to state explicitly how things work. Work has begun to update DSP  DMTF delegate control of the broader CIM model to encourage wider participation and acceptance –DMTF to retain control of the common or base parts of the model (still need to work with Alliance Partners where submitted model elements are or should be part of common/base CIM) DMTF needs to acknowledge these contributions from alliance partners because DMTF requires the contributed schema to contain only DMTF copyright –DMTF to delegate ownership (via the CIM extension definition) to bodies/communities that have expertise, e.g. ARTS for the retail/POS model, SNIA for storage, OGF for grid aggregations (OGSA/GLUE) –DMTF to accept and publicize that these delegated parts of CIM are an integral part of CIM and not second class citizens –DMTF to provide web site to hold these extension models so DMTF is viewed as authoritative source for CIM (and all its extensions) Users can have ‘one stop shopping’ for authoritative models –DMTF to provide non-membership use of compilation tools so CIM schema can be validated, e.g. syntax –Consider delegating development of other protocols, e.g. XML using standard XML constructs to further the adoption of CIM –Do a prototype project to develop detailed proposal and then execute on to fine tune delegation proposal –Resolutions DMTF will acknowledge schema work contributed from alliance partners starting in CIMv2.16 release (August 2007). Ellen to provide proposal to DMTF executive committee in time for review and inclusion on August board agenda (August 8-9). DMTF Alliance Committee will start working immediately on defining how to implement a delegated/federated schema.

DMTF-OGF Alliance Partnership Partnership Resolutions2 23 July 2007 Schema Contribution Acknowledgement Proposal  CIMv2.16 –Add statements to acknowledge alliance partner contributions to the CIM schema. (1) In the CIM schema readme file, immediately following the DMTF copyright / IP notice, add a paragraph with the following text: “Contributions to the CIM schema have been provided through the Alliance Partnerships with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Open Grid Forum (OGF).” (2) The web page for each release of the CIM schema has text that describes the release. For example, on the web page for CIMv2.15, it is stated that enhancements and additions to the schema are in support of product, alliance partners, and DMTF profiles / initiatives. Contributions by alliance partners needs to be stated explicitly. Immediately following the paragraph that summarizes the CIM release, add a paragraph with the following text: “Contributions to the CIM schema have been provided through the Alliance Partnerships with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Open Grid Forum (OGF).”  CIMv2.17 and forward –Retain the statements added as specified above from CIMv2.16. –Acknowledge alliance partner contributions in MOF files. (1) In contributed MOF files, add the following text on a new line immediately following the DMTF copyright line: // Contributed by (insert alliance partner name). For example, // Contributed by Open Grid Forum. –Modify DMTF processes and templates as appropriate to state how alliance partner contributions to schema are acknowledged.