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Service Modeling Language (SML) provides a 'building block' approach to modelling system resources - including applications, servers and networks - in XML.
A companion specification - Service Modeling Language Interchange Format (SML-IF) - for exchanging models between applications has also been submitted.
SML models can also hold information relevant to capacity planning and service level agreements, among other things. Adoption of such a standard will make it easier for users to employ management tools from different vendors.
The eleven participants in the project were BEA, BMC, CA, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun. With backing like that, it is hard to see SML failing to become a standard - especially they have each agreed "to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements ... for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation. a perpetual, royalty-free licence to the technologies used in SML."
The process could take two years, so it seems likely that vendors will soon start to incorporate the draft version into their products ahead of ratification.
David Bass
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