This message is forwarded from Dane Skow: Hello all, I'd like to make you aware of a BOF to be held at 13:45 on Friday in G408 for a discussion between the Standards activities and the GIN effort. The goal of this meeting is to summarize a report out from the GIN experiences to date and have a discussion about how best that work might inform/feedback on the standards development. The Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) activity is a federation of ~15 of the major production grids across the world who are trying to establish islands of interoperation between grids on a few basic services. Agreements of various types needed to be made in order to establish this interoperation (which we are still building/verifying). Some agreements were selecting a standard, but others were conventions needed to fill a gap: either because there were not adequate implementations of a standard or missing an effective standard. The format of the meeting is intended to be an open discussion. Standards Focus group chairs and GIN participants are particularly invited to attend. Rough agenda: GIN experiences reportout (panel) (20 min) Identity and Authorization (Dane Skow) Information Services and Schema (Satoshi Matsuoka) Jobs Submission and Management (Steven Newhouse) Data Movement and Management (Erwin Laure) Applications (Peter Arzberger) Open Discussion (60 min) Regards, Dane Please excuse this interruption if you consider this SPAM, but this was the best way we could find quickly to get the notification of this meeting's goals in front of the broader community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Global Grid Forum replogle@ggf.org http://www.ggf.org