Re: SML (Service Modeling Language) info

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

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:

    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