The TrustCoM Framework V4

Abstract

The TrustCoM project1 has developed this Framework for Trust, Security and Contract management for dynamic virtual organisations operated through an open service architecture. The Framework includes a way of conceptualising the Trust, Security and Contract issues associated with dynamic virtual organisations, an architecture in which the operating open services can be implemented and profiles of proposed and standardised web service specifications tailored to VO application. The project will also produce a reference implementation of the architecture, and demonstrators whose evaluation will show the strengths and weaknesses of the framework. VO Management as developed for academic Grids, has previously only addressed membership issues and has so far ignored the Trust, Security and Contract management issues addressed in the TrustCoM framework. Consequently, these aspects of the Framework and the architecture are innovations. Supply chain management systems for large organisations do address contract development issues but do not address most of the security and automated contract and SLA monitoring and policy enforcement issues that are addressed by TrustCoM, so these remain innovations. Stand alone systems address role based security, but not the contractual context that TrustCoM does, so even the approach to this technology is innovative. The main innovations in the TrustCoM approach are in integrating these technologies to refine a contract and ancillary SLAs stated in business terms into deployable processes that monitor and enforce those agreements between organisations. The framework document provides an overview of the results achieved in realising the TrustCoM framework. This document describes the final results of the framework design process in TrustCoM