Dear *, As you all most probably know the area's are going to be restructured and the new area's will become effective at GGF 14. In the GFSG dance around which AD(s) takes/gets what area in the new structure I was extremely pleased to get the Infrastructure area, given that my professional interests are in Optical/photonic networking, service/control planes and make that underware a first class fit for the grid. You may be unaware but I have subscribed to your mailing lists in februari and have tried to follow what is going on (on some I was already subscribed). So I would like to have an area meeting which is scheduled for wednesday june 29th 18h00-19h30. In that meeting we can discuss: - note taker(s) - agenda bashing - current status of the different groups - current docs in production - scope of the area - what is missing in the area, where do we need more or less activity - how do we effectively work together in the future (I hate to impose useless phonecalls to your agenda's) The groups in this area are: ipv6-wg, nm-wg, datatransport-rg, ghpn-wg, nma-rg . I know that some groups may be dormant, or not meeting anymore, etc. I also want to remark that there are 2 BOF's running but not yet converged to being chartered: Sensor grids and grid-VPN although we actually may be close to finalizing that. Regarding the AD(s): I am currently the only AD for this area in the standards section. My term is ending in october. I was on the GFSG for a little over 3.5 years by then. The NOMCOM is currently in the process of getting these two positions (re)filled. If the NOMCOM chooses so I may be serving again after October, I am currently a nominee. Best regards, Cees. -- http://www.science.uva.nl/~delaat/