All, As I expected, EGR intends on having a very broad focus wrt use cases at the beginning. After this initial spin-up of the repository w/ EGR's help, perhaps we should orchestrate a longer term effort wrt a Use Case community group as Geoffrey suggests. This group would have in its charter not only the collection of use cases from all sorts of interesting application domains, but also to promote the analysis and use of use cases for making informed decisions wrt grid infrastructure development, deployment, tools, applications, etc. --Cragi

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Craig:

Craig Lee wrote:

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Toshi & Ravi, The GGF IT folks are putting together a Use Case Repository prototype pretty much based on the plan that I circulated. When we have the most basic version put together, we'd certainly like EGR to take a close look, try using it, and give us feedback.

Certainly..

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Also, the issue of EGR's scope came up. While EGR's main focus is enterprise grids, and use cases related to that, GGF will need to get the repository populated with as many use cases as possible, covering all and any aspects of grid computing. In your initial work, will the use cases you are interested in have a broad scope, or do you feel that you will try to focus on just those use cases that are specifically enterprise-related?

This discussion has come up before and the concensus is that we'd like to get as much input as we can and then after lloking at the usecases, we'd like to focus. So in a nut shell, yes I think we'd like to do as you suggest below. (Ravi, if I've said something wrong please correct me.)

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Clearly we could like to encourage you to have a very broad focus, and just want to get a better idea of what you think EGR's scope should be. ;-> --Craig

Best Regards Toshi -- Toshiyuki Nakata t-nakata@cw.jp.nec.com +81-44-431-7653 (NEC Internal 8-22-60210)