Collected list of tools, protocol development and current status:

Aspera/FASP

URL:

Status:

Production

Protocol

User groups:

IBM Cloud Private (ICP) environments

End points that use IBM Aspera file transfer software

GridFTP

URL:

Status:

Ended

Software

User groups:

Grid community

Globus toolkit

URL:	https://mdtm.fnal.gov/
Status:	Ongoing MDTM middleware MdtmFTP software/protocol
User groups:	DOE

URL:	https://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/
Status:	Ongoing development Open-source protocol
User groups:	-

URL:	http://lftp.yar.ru/
Status:	Ended development Open-source Software
User groups:	-

URL:	https://github.com/fast-data-transfer/fdt
Status:	Ended development Open-source Software
User groups:	-

URL:	https://github.com/slaclab/bbcp
Status:	Ended development Open-source Software
User groups:	-

URL:

Status:

Command line tool to sync files and directories

Open-source

Software

User groups:

Cloud Service users

(example sync between HPC clusters and CSP)