Given what I currently know of the Drafts, I'm still debating whether we should be reserving one or two 90' sessions.  I kindly request the Draft Editors and Authors to flag me whether they expect to a) have a new draft issued and/or b) plan to make it to Boston to present their material. Point a) is not necessarily a pre-requisite for b). Given that in Chicago I presented most of their material, it's quite likely that I didn't do justice to the strong production (1 new draft, 2 draft revisions) that we had back then --- an expanded re-run might be quite useful.

As usual, the last ~30 minutes are reserved for short presentations on efforts with GHPN relevance and within GHPN scope --- e.g., new initiatives, draft proposals, ideas for new RG/WGs, specific Grid network services. If you wish to present, please send an abstract of your material to the chairs and/or this list before August 31st. 

In addition to the regular GHPN program, I want to call your attention to two events of relevance to this community:

• a 60' lecture on Provisioning & Managing a Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource, by Yaron Haviv, Voltaire, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday October 5th as part of the Community Program;
• the 2nd IEEE/Create-Net GridNets 2005 workshop on October 6-7 in Boston ( http://gridnets.org/2005/). GridNets is a forum for peer-reviewed research papers on networks for Grid applications. This event is NOT associated with GGF. Same city but different venue, different dates (albeit adjacent dates), and different admission fee structure.

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Grid High Performance Networking Research Group (GHPN-RG)

Tentative Agenda
 
 1.       Agenda Bashing and Administrivia                 [5']
 
 2.       GHPN overview. Progress against milestones [10']
 
 3.       Grid Network Services Use Cases                  [15']
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewProperties.php?group_id=53&category_id=750&document_content_id=3836
 
 4.       Grid Optical Burst Switched Networks           [30']
A new GHPN Draft exploring some unique Grid+OBS features and opportunities
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewProperties.php?group_id=53&category_id=750&document_content_id=3829

 5.       Grid Network Services Architecture                [45']
Admela Jukan has made substantial changes to this Draft. What's new. What's next. Discussion.
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewProperties.php?group_id=53&category_id=750&document_content_id=3833

 6.       Short presentations      `                         [30']

• TBD

-franco