Service Modeling Language (SML)
Today, Microsoft announced, along with other vendors, the publication of, or their intend to publish later, a new language to model data center resources and their management in XML. This language is called Service Modeling Language, and is based on Schematron.
As a result of collaboration, the open, industry-wide specification defines a common language for expressing information about IT resources and services. Called the Service Modeling Language (SML), the specification enables a hierarchy of IT resource models to be created from reusable building blocks rather than requiring custom descriptions of every service, thus reducing costs and system complexity for customers. The group plans to submit the draft specification to an industry standards organization later this year.
This language is intended to replace Microsoft's System Definition Model
Some more information is available at SearchWebServices.com.
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Re: Service Modeling Language (SML)
DCML never really got industry traction because it failed to get major vendors backing. the various DCML OASIS TC started to close down to one.
After the previous blow from the CMDB standard industry consortium (see this post)
it seems that this one will be fatal to DCML.