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. ==== 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