Re: SML (Service Modeling Language) info

Phil Shafer wrote:
> Andy Bierman writes:
>> It's a standard that nobody but the author has agreed to.
> 
> My take is that it's a bit more than that:

You're right.
It's probably more than "s/author/authors/", and
I'd like to read the I-D to find out.

Andy

> 
>     The companies involved--BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco Systems,
>     Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun
>     Microsystems--published a draft SML specification on Monday and
>     pledged to support it in the future.
>     ...
>     The basis for SML is Microsoft's own XML specification, called
>     Systems Definition Model. The company has already built support
>     for SDM in Visual Studio 2005; all future management software
>     and future operating systems will use SML starting in 2007,
>     Tatarinov said.
>     ...
>     Ric Telford, vice president of autonomic computing at Microsoft
>     rival IBM, said that many systems management companies, including
>     IBM, already have projects similar to SML going on. Rather than
>     create overlapping and competing standards proposals, the backers
>     of SML decided to work from Microsoft's submission, he said.
> 
>     "I think this is one of the better ways to do (standards),"
>     Telford said. "Working in a smaller group to make a proposed
>     stnadard and then submit it is a lot more efficient than coming
>     to standards body with a concept."
> 
>     He said IBM's servers, development tools and Tivoli management
>     software will support SML once it becomes standardized next
>     year. The company already uses its own XML-based modeling
>     language in Tivoli products, such as its automated provisioning
>     server.
> 
> Thanks,
>  Phil
> 
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