Dear All, I have prepared the attached - provisional slides for the Monday's session. Looking forward to seeing you. Ning ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Dillaway" <blaird@microsoft.com> To: <helm@fionn.es.net>; "Ning Zhang" <nzhang@cs.man.ac.uk> Cc: "Michael Helm" <helm@es.net>; "David Groep" <davidg@nikhef.nl>; <Stephen.Pickles@manchester.ac.uk> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:43 PM Subject: RE: LoA-RG This seems like a quite reasonable plan for an RG. If you already knew the answers, it wouldn't be research. Based on this, a reasonable timeline might be: - Contact external groups and collect important use cases between OGF20 & 21. - Prepare draft document by Nov 2007 - Complete RG internal review and move to public comment by Feb 2008 - Publish INFO document May 2008 It would certainly be acceptable to move these dates out some if you feel more time is needed to collect and validate use case inputs. Mike, the important thing for now is to put milestone dates in the charter you're comfortable with as the document editor. If can let us know what milestones you think are reasonable, then we can start this through the approval process. Thanks, Blair

-----Original Message----- From: Mike Helm [mailto:helm@fionn.es.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:21 PM To: Ning Zhang Cc: Michael Helm; David Groep; Blair Dillaway; Stephen.Pickles@manchester.ac.uk Subject: Re: LoA-RG

So far, I have not raised a lot of interest in actually doing this analysis. I've discussed it at a couple of Open Science Grid functions (this is the organization most likely to provide the right kind of people to describe these use cases), a software security group (which David G is also acquainted with), and a couple of Grid CA PMAs, one just before the BoF, and one after.

I'm thinking this is worth one or two more tries, preferably with European stakeholders dominant (get a different set of security expectations and ideas, thinking about this).

The best I could do for a draft would probably be fall 2007, expecting that sometime in the next 2-3 months we could find a couple of participants.

Thanks, ==mwh