>>Page 3 (characteristics and goals) Infrastructure Virtualization
>>      It may be a characteristic of Grids (but not a necessary one).  I
>>don't think it is a goal either (at least w.r.t. Infrastructure).
>>I would
>>remove that one.  Further virtualization work is not being done
>>(infrastructure-wise) in OGF, storage, network and server
>>virtualization are
>>all be defined, spec'd and implemented elsewhere.
>
>I put that in there, because the experience at Oracle is that
>virtualization of
>resources is a big part of the grid story expected and experienced
>by our
>customers. My intention there was mostly to try to recapture a bit
>of mindshare
>for OGF.
>
>That said, I agree that we have no business defining/spec'ing/
>implementing
>virtualization, but our deployment/management strategy must (I
>assert) include
>an understanding of managing virtualized resources.
>