Dear all, Hidemoto Nakada, Yusuke Tanimura, and myself have met and we have re-worked the pending proposal for a GridRPC module for inclusion in the upcoming SAGA spec. The only thing we have changed is the way in which parameters to an RPC invocation are passed. Now, it is an array of parameters, where a paramter is a struct, consisting of buffer, size, and, IN/OUT/INOUT mode. We have also modelled examples from the Ninf-G web page with this API. We think that this now has a "look and feel" of GridRPC. Attached please find the proposed text with API and examples. If this (or something similar) can be agreed upon quickly, then the GridRPC module can be included in the SAGA 1.0 spec. We see this API not as a competitor to the GridRPC API, as published in GFD-R.52. It is rather an alternative, embedded in the SAGA framework, to access existing GridRPC implementations, thus extending their user base. We are now doing the final call for comments for the two groups involved. If you have comments or questions, please post them TO BOTH MAILING LISTS. This final call is open until FRIDAY, AUGUST 18th. Comments and objections made by then will happily be included in the proposal. By this deadline, we will add this text (with all modifications we got) into the SAGA API document. Thanks to you all for your contributions. Thilo Kielmann -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/