Dear all, Following the two reliability and robustness workshops held in Athens (GGF16 in February, 2006) and Chapel Hill (OGF19 in February, 2007), I have put together a draft informational document which summarizes the state of current work on Grid system reliability and describes requirements for capabilities needed to ensure high levels of reliability in current and future large-scale grid systems. This document is intended to evolve into a primary output of the OGF Reliability and Robustness Research Group (RG). The draft summarizes work presented at the two workshops and includes a substantial amount of additional work that many of us have identified as being relevant. The draft is posted on the RG grid forge web site* or can be obtained from me upon request. Please review the document and comment as you deem appropriate. It may also be that you can find omissions or areas of relevant work that should be included (that perhaps you may wish to contribute). There will be a meeting of the Reliability RG at OGF21, at which the main purpose will be to discus the status of the document. If you can attend, please do. If not, please feel free to send email to the reflector. Hope to hear from all of you, Sincerely, Chris Dabrowski. *See https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/gridrel-rg, go to section labeled "documents". Christopher Dabrowski National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 Phone: +1 301 975-3249 FAX: +1 301 948-6213 cdabrowski@nist.gov