The purpose of this document is to specify a protocol for accessing a Policy Decision Point (PDP) by a Grid Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) in order to obtain access control decisions containing obligations. The protocol is a profile of the SAML2.0 profile of XACMLv2 request/response contexts, tailored especially for grid use.

This document presents a specification for an authorization credential retrieval protocol based on the use of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and protocol as a format for requesting and retrieving attribute assertions.

This document provides a protocol for an authorization component to access an external credential validation service (CVS) prior to calling a policy decision point (PDP). The protocol is a profile of a SAML attribute assertion carried by WS-Trust.

This document defines the Advanced Filter extension – an alternative to the Basic Filter element described in the HPC Basic Profile 1.0 specification. The Basic Filter provides only an ‘on’ or ‘off’ approach to returning information about the activities or resources operating within the Basic Execution Service container. The Advanced Filter extension provides more flexibility to the client in returning information from an HPC Basic Profile complaint endpoint.

This document specifies the syntax and semantics of the proposed Parameter Sweep extension to the Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) 1.0 [JSDL]. The syntax and semantics defined in this document provide an alternative to explicitly submitting thousands of individual JSDL job submissions of the same base job template, except with a different set of parameters for each.

The GLUE specification is an information model for Grid entities described using the natural language and UML Class Diagrams. As a conceptual model, it is designed to be independent from the concrete data models adopted for its implementation. Rendering to concrete data models such XML Schema, LDAP Schema and SQL are provided in a separate document.

This document species a Service Discovery API extension to the Simple API
for Grid Applications (SAGA), a high level, application-oriented API for grid
application development. This Service Discovery API is motivated by a number
of Use Cases collected by the OGF SAGA Research Group in GFD.70 [4], and
by requirements derived from these Use Cases, as specied in GFD.71 [5]). It
allows users to nd services with minimal prior knowledge of the grid or grids
they plan to use.

An OGSA basic profile is a profile in the style of WS-Interoperability (WS I) that defines recommended usage of infrastructure-level standards for Grid scenarios. OGSA services are expected to use one such profile for each infrastructure capability needed. This document defines such a basic profile for security by bringing together two general, non-OGSA specific, profiles on secure addressing and secure communication.
This profile can be composed with other basic profiles. In particular this profile satisfies the security requirements of the WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 and can be composed with it.

This document specifies the semantics and structure of the Job Submission Description Lan-guage (JSDL). JSDL is used to describe the requirements of computational jobs for submission to resources, particularly in Grid environments, though not restricted to the latter. The document includes the normative XML Schema for the JSDL, along with examples of JSDL documents based on this schema.

This document profiles the File staging capabilities of the Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) for use by HPC Basic Profile-compliance services. It includes clarifications, refinements, interpretations and amplifications of JSDL which promote interoperability.