If your email system does not allow html viewing, please go to http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php to read the newsletter. OGF Monthly Newsletter October 2006 A look at Past Accomplishments and A Preview of Coming Attractions Welcome to the new OGF Monthly eNewsletter Each month we will highlight accomplishments for the past month and preview activities planned for the coming month. Please feel free to submit newsletter suggestions and items for consideration to jehrig@ogf.org. New Document Published GFD.082 - Grid Information Retrieval System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Virtual Organization Two important requirements that all Grid application systems should satisfy are to accommodate the dynamic nature of Virtual Organizations (VOs), and to enforce different levels of security among different VOs. This document shows how to implement a Grid Information Retrieval (GIR) system using VO and security mechanisms provided by Globus toolkit 3.0, and shows how GIR system scalability and security can be improved for dynamic VOs. Congratulations to the Grid Information Retrieval Working Group and Author Yangwoo Kim! Read the full document at http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.82.pdf Area Directors Named Technical Areas are the bedrock of the OGF and our Technical Area Directors manage and facilitate groups, milestones and deliverables in defined areas of expertise such as data, architecture, management, etc. Ellen Stokes, Management Ellen is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Grid Strategy, Architecture, and Standards area. She is Co-chair of GGF/OGSA resource management design team to help OGSA model the resources necessary for Grid and put those model extensions/modifications into the DMTF Common Information Model. Blair Dillaway, Security Blair is a software architect in the advanced technology incubation group of Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Office. He has participated in the OGSA Authz WG, providing substantive feedback on the new charter for the WG and commenting on early draft specifications. David Groep, Security David has worked in the grid security area for a number of years, initially in the context of the European DataGrid project, continuing in EGEE, where he was responsible for the design of the site access control security services. He has long experience in GGF/OGF, being active in the security area, particularly its internationalization. New Organizational Members Welcome to our newest organizational members Altair Engineering and CANARIE. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Altair Engineering is a leading global product design consulting and technology company. Through engineering, consulting, CAE software solutions and high performance computing technologies, Altair Engineering increases innovation for more than 1,500 clients around the globe. Altair's PBS Professional operates in networked multi-platform UNIX environments, and supports heterogeneous clusters of workstations, supercomputers, and massively parallel systems. http://www.altair.com/ Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on them. http://www.canarie.ca/about/index.html Event Review OGF/ITU-T Next Generation Networks Workshop On October 23-24, OGF and ITU-T collaborated on a workshop that brought together experts from the grid and next generation network communities. OGF is actively reaching out to communities such as the Telco community to advance Grid adoption, interoperability and scalability. Opportunities for Telco's include: 1) specializing in network SLAs that are optimally suited to Grids; 2) using Grids for their IT internal needs; and/or 3) offering Grids as a managed service to customers. ITU-T's Global Standards Initiative on Next Generation Network (NGN-GSI) is well under way and is responding to urgent market needs for global NGN standards. NGN offers increased quality and service features for users, independent of the underlying transport technology. During the two day workshop, graciously hosted by ITU-T at the headquarters in Geneva, OGF and ITU-T discussed current status of our respective work and explored opportunities for alignment and collaboration. The full workshop agenda and presentations including a summary report-out are available at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/grid/programme.html Upcoming Events SC06 Tampa, Florida November 11-16 OGF will have an exciting announcement regarding this show. Watch for details coming soon. DMTF Management Developers Conference December 4-7 in Santa Clara, CA OGF is a sponsor of this event and will by represented by Tom Roney, Ellen Stokes and Fred Maciel who will lead a session on behalf of the Resource Management Design Team. Visit the conference website for more information http://www.mandevcon.com/. OGF19 Chapel Hill, North Carolina January 29 - February 2, 2007 Program will include a full slate of chartered group sessions, 2 days of eScience workshops, Enterprise sessions, and more. Register and save up to $100 http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_regstrtn_ogf19.php. OGF20 Manchester, U.K. May 7-11, 2007 Save these dates! Program overview to be announced soon. Individual Members - Activate your 2007 Membership Even though 2007 is a couple of months away, OGF is launching its 2007 individual membership program now in order to provide immediate benefit to 2007 members planning to attend OGF19. The fee for 2007 membership is $195 and registered members will receive a $100 discount to all 2007 OGF events. Individuals who are not employed by OGF organizational members may join OGF at http://www.regonline.com/112287. Individuals that registered under the 2006 program are requested to reregister for 2007 at a reduced 2007 annual fee of $100. Your member number will be required to obtain this discount. Individual member benefits can be seen at http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_ind_program.php. Questions may be sent to member-info@ogf.org The success of OGF depends upon member participation. All of the significant events, activities and accomplishments of the forum are member driven. Please contact any OGF staff member if you want to get involved http://www.ogf.org/ggf_contact.htm. We welcome your input!