All, I have done the updates to the document discussed in the last two phone calls, and in the EMS meeting in Japan. At a high level this includes modifications to adopt text/issues from the ESI document and the HPC profile working document. Note that this is NOT a final document. These changes revolve around: 1: Changing CreateActivityFromJSDL to a) take additional optional arguments, specifically notification arguments and an "idempotent" argument lifted from ESI. b) An extension to JSDL suggested in ESI to support libraries 2: Adding a resource information model section. Originally to be from 4.1 of the ESI document - but post discussion with Snelling, Stokes, et al a modified 4.1. 3: State model. This is one of the biggest jobs. At GGF in Japan the HPC profile group introduced a nice, simple, extensible state model that would allow supporting a variety of state machines while still allowing basic clients to understand what they were getting. After discussions with many people I have decided to adopt that simpler state model. CLEARLY THIS WILL NEED DISCUSSION BY INTERESTED PARTIES. I AM NOT TRYING TO PULL A FAST ONE. I have taken the text verbatim from the HPC profile paper. Note that I do not yet have permission from their lawyers - so we may need to yank this and retype the same info. I hope not. 4: Refer to managedjob "type" of EPR, just as we refer to "WS-Name" "type" of EPR. I have not even tried to modify the WSDL and renderings. Once we decide on the rest of the content we can do that. So don't read past page 20! I am not sure of the status of the weekly call this week. I will synch with Darren and Steven and send mail tomorrow. I'm also including some slides from the discussion of BES in the EMS session. A Andrew Grimshaw Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia 434-982-2204 grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu