Dear All, The next teleconference of the OGSA Data Architecture working group will be held on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 at the usual time of 8:00am Pacific / 11:00am Eastern / 4:00pm UK / 5:00pm Europe. In this telcon we will review the Federation section and associated scenarios. Please read this section and scenarios and bring issues to the call. As a reminder, here is the teleconference information: UK dialin: 0845 245 0224 US dialin: 1 866 838 0046 Intl dialin: +44 1452 542309 Passcode: 369786 Agenda for the November 2nd teleconference: 1) Early discussion (5 minutes) Note taker assignment Roll call Minutes approval from September 28th teleconference (http://tinyurl.com/c8ruk) Agenda bashing 2) Action report (5 minutes) - Ann to check the Access section for suitability for file replication. - Mario to pass write token to Allen by end of week and make text available for comment. - Dave to put reports from GGF on GridForge. - Peter to rewrite storage management section to reflect changes from GSM-WG - Allen to write text about policy - Allen to write an overview section on security - Section authors to add security notes to their sections, once the overview is ready. - Dave to revamp section 3 of the architecture document - Everyone to talk with your contacts to get more participation in this WG. - Allen/Dave to contact David Martin & Hiro Kishimoto to get reviewers & expert participation (after internal reviews). 3) Progess update (5 minutes) Update on document writing, plans for telcons and F2F. 4) Review of federation section and associated scenarios (40 minutes) Issues that we should consider include, but are not limited to: - Matching scenarios against service descriptions - Level of detail - Security implications - Consistency with other sections - Identify where work is needed on metadata or on naming conventions - Graceful degradation 5) Wrap up (5 minutes) Next meetings: Nov 9th: Replication Nov 16th: Storage Dave Berry Research Manager, National e-Science Centre 15 South College St., Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 6514039