1. 1 CDDLM-WG: Overview == Configuration Description, Deployment and Lifecycle management Focus: how to deploy and manage complex applications on grid resources Description of app components, how related, how configured Deployment API for submitting and managing descriptions Component Model describes the execution environment that app components can expect Concept emerged from the SmartFrog work at HP Labs in Bristol

2. 2 CDDLM-WG Status Significant progress since starting at end 2003 Recommendation track documents Experimental implementations Interoperability testing Problems Has taken much longer than we anticipated Critical mass lost Now only one contributor; no group chairs Little pull for the technology Need to discuss a way forward

3. 3 CDDLM-WG Deliverables Document TitleGGF IDTrackCurrent Status Foundation DocumentGFD.50INFOComplete SmartFrog LanguageGFD.51RECComplete (but language will not get a second implementation) Component ModelGFD.65RECComplete Deployment API Specification GFD.69RECComplete CDL Specification(1491)RECRevised version submitted CDL Interoperability ReportEXPIn progress Deployment API Interoperability Report EXPIn progress Component Model Interoperability Report EXPWill not be done [implementations differ]