Apologies for the cross-posting! For those who have been involved in BES, JSDL and the HPCBP work... there is a new activity starting in OGF that intends to build on work in this area... but for new use cases. See below: <quote> The Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) community group is happy to announce its spin-off standardization activity named Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) working group. Both groups will complement each other and thus GIN proceeds to enable real e-science applications that require resources in more than one production infrastructure demonstrating the technical feasibility of interoperability using open standards wherever possible. In contrast to GIN, PGI will formulate a well-defined set of profiles, and additional specifications if needed, for job and data management that are aligned with a Grid security and information model in order to address the needs of production Grid infrastructures based on the experiences gained in GIN. The resulting Web service interfaces and schemas defined by this working group will be a set of profiles of open standards and specifications such as OGSA-Basic Execution Services (GFD.108), Job Submission Description Language (GFD.136), GridFTP (GFD.20), Storage Resource Manager (GFD.129), and efforts of the GLUE2 (GFD tbc) working group. The additional work bv this group will go beyond the current specifications and extensions to focus on the missing links between these specifications taking reasonable authentication/authorization models into account – all tuned to the use cases found in production Grid infrastructures. The PGI kick-off teleconference providing a ‘PGI 101’ is on Wednesday, 2009-01-07 at 4 p.m. CET (UTC+1). For more details please visit the PGI Website: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/projects/pgi-wg </quote> I assume call details will be circulated nearer the time by the WG chairs. Steven Dr Steven Newhouse EGEE Technical Director http://cern.ch/Steven.Newhouse