status: Withdrawn

Chair (s): Mikael Borg, Paul Millar, Nicholas Car

Group Email: [group_email]

Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]


This working group is involved in creating well-defined terms that describe storage services, especially in the areas of Quality of Service and Data Life-cycle. These terms should describe what the users (the scientists) can expect from the storage service, allowing them to compare different storage options and choose where to store their data with some confidence at how the storage service will behave.

The current lack of such standardised terminology makes it very difficult to compare the services and procure them. While Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) provide formal description of what the users may expect, the definition of those terms can vary between different communities and storage suppliers. There have even been cases where the lack of a common understanding have resulted in litigation during a procurement process. To this end, this working group is building a vocabulary that describes aspects of a data storage service that user communities care about. The aim is that this vocabulary may be used both when interacting with computers (e.g., in network protocols) and producing textual documents (e.g., SLAs, MoUs) to bring a common understanding of what is on offer and what is required.

A related concept is the data lifecycle: how data is handled over its lifetime. Some of these processes may be automated, provided such steps can be described in a generic fashion.  By delegating these processes to some automated service, the scientists can focus on maximising their scientific output.  However, this (again) requires a common language that describes what should be done.  Such a language has multiple uses — it may be used when configuring storage or in higher-level documents such as a project's Data Management Plan (DMP).

The group will establish an efficient way to collect the terminology and use this to build the definitions. As the scope and the definitions themselves naturally evolve, versioning of the vocabulary will become necessary to support users that require isolation from such variability.

To be successful, this process needs to involve a community of international user, storage operators, as well as storage vendors and suppliers.  Representatives of all those groups are welcome to join this process.

Note: the Storage Service Definitions WG was formally known as "QoS-DataLC Definitions"(Quality-of-Service and Data-Lifecycle Definitions) WG.

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May
2019
14
June
2018

Patterns DB using RDA single sign-on

by Nicholas Car

Dear Prov Pat WG & Storage Service Defns WG, Single sign-on to the Patterns DB using your RDA credentials has finally arrived! You’re now able to create a user account on the Patterns DB that is linked to your RDA account and use its details to log you in via the OpenID system. Follow these steps. To create your account: 1. Sign in to the RDA website using your account at https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/login
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01
June
2018

RDA P12 sessions: Deadline 29 Jun 2018

by Rainer Stotzka

Dear all, as the liaison for your group ³Storage Service Definitions WG², I'd like to remind you that the call for Session Proposals for Plenary 12 in Gaborone is open. Further details are at https://www.rd-alliance.org/12th-plenary-meeting-call-sessions The deadline for proposals is 29 June 2018 (17:00 UTC). In any case, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Best regards, RAiner. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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30
April
2018

Next meeting: 2018-05-02 10:00 CEST

by Paul Millar

Hi all, The next Storage Service Definition meeting will be this Wednesday at 08:00 UTC, which is 09:00 BST, 10:00 CEST, 11:00 EEST and 18:00 AEST. For the times in other timezones, please check: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=RDA+Storage+Se... You may join the meeting by connecting to the following link:
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11
April
2018

Today's meeting: 10:00 CEST

by Paul Millar

Hi all, We have our usual meeting using the usual video conference system: https://meet.desy.de/invited.sf?secret=lR4zaRywak_e7EY1146thA&id=162290277 As before (unfortunately) only Google Chrome works for in-browser participation. If people prefer, CISCO has a desktop client that should work for Windows and MacOS. The meeting takes place at 10:00 CET. See you soon! Paul.
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14
March
2018

[RDA P11] input for the "current status" talk

by Paul Millar

Hi all, Could people send me a few sentences, bullet points, or a slide (or two) that describes their current status? This is so I can add this information to the "Update on our current status" talk, during our P11 session. Cheers, Paul.
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14
March
2018

Next meeting: TODAY (2018-02-28) 10:00 CET

by Paul Millar

Hi all, As usual, here is the link for our video meeting: https://meet.desy.de/invited.sf?secret=lR4zaRywak_e7EY1146thA&id=162290277 As before (unfortunately) only Google Chrome works for in-browser participation. If people prefer, CISCO has a desktop client that should work for Windows and MacOS. The meeting takes place at 10:00 CET. See you soon! Paul.
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05
March
2018

Case statement time-line

by Paul Millar

Hi all, I've just heard back from Rainer, our TAB liaison. It turns out that there's no correlation between TAB meetings and the case-statement review process. These two operate independently. So (in general) there's no particular deadline to aim for, in order for a case-statement to be processed quickly. He presented a rough time-line: i. community review (4w or 1m) ii. TAB review (2w) iii. Council endorsement (2w) So, roughly 2 months from submitting to endorsement. Cheers, Paul.
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28
February
2018

Minutes for today's meeting

by Paul Millar

Hi all, I've uploaded minutes from today's meeting into our wiki: https://rd-alliance.org/group/storage-service-definitions-wg/wiki/meetin... As usual, if you find any errors or omissions, please either fix them directly or let me know. Cheers, Paul.
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