  We present several proposals for extending the Open Community Runtime (OCR)
specification. The extension are identifiers with local validity, which use the
concept of futures to provide OCR implementations more optimization
opportunities, labeled GUIDs with creator functions, which are based on the
local identifiers and allow the developer to create arrays of OCR objects that
are safe from race conditions in case of concurrent creation of objects, a
simple file IO interface, which builds on top of the existing data block
concepts, and finally data block partitioning, which allows better control and
flexibility in situations where multiple tasks want to access disjoint parts of
a data block.
