scope:

The present document describes an XML schema for describing application constraints and resources to be used for deploying these applications on distributed and parallel infrastructures, like enterprise and scientific grids or job schedulers.

The standard will help enterprises and laboratories to manage their IT software within large-scale computer and telecom infrastructures with the necessary virtualization.

Its primary audience are users of grid-based applications who will need to write application descriptors so they can run them on the grid for their grid.