Andrew, Steven and all OGSA-BES stakeholders, At the OGSA-BES session at OGF32 in Salt Lake City on 17 July 2011, we had agreed to propose for the beginning of September 2011 improvements to the current specification of BES 1.0 described in GFD.108 But I am unable to define specifications before having a clear picture of requirements. Therefore, I am currently writing down a document named 'Requirements for an improved Basic Execution Service (BES)'. This document is NOT finished, but the first 10 chapters are in a readable and consistent state. The current version of this document is in the attached 'BES-Improvements-Requirements.doc' file. Thank you in advance for reading and criticizing this document. When GridForge will be up again, I will save the latest version there. Best regards. ----------------------------------------------------- Etienne URBAH LAL, Univ Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS Bat 200 91898 ORSAY France Tel: +33 1 64 46 84 87 Skype: etienne.urbah Mob: +33 6 22 30 53 27 mailto:urbah@lal.in2p3.fr -----------------------------------------------------