Hi, I am sad to have to say that due to change in work committments I will have to resign my OGSA-DMI Working Group chair. However, Steven Crouch from the University of Southampton will step up to take over the position. The work he is currently doing with the DataMinx people as well his involvement with the JSDL and OGSA-BES Working Groups means that OGSA DMI will be taken in the right directions and be made compatible with these other efforts. At this morning's call the group approved this change and this is your opportunity to dissent or offer yourself up as a chair if you would so like. If there is no dissent Steve would assume the chair role, replacing me, at OGF28. There are a number of outstanding things from my time as chair: o Plain WS rendering has gone through the OGF process and is ready to be published but have held off from doing this to see whether any changes are required from requirements input from the DataMinx folks. If these do not impact then this document can be published. o Interop experiences document from work done by Steven Newhouse and Michel Drescher - still needs to be typed up - my bad. May be impacted by changes required in the previous point. Shahbaz is currently determining the changes that would be required on the WSDL/Schema. Hopefully this can be done before OGF. If there is no impact then these two points can be moved forward. Shahbaz is also working on a WSRF rendering of the spec. Dave Meredith hopes to get an outline version of a bulk data transfer out by OGF28. Anyhow, that gives you an outline of where the group has been and where it is going. I will remain in place until OGF28 and, unless there are objections, Steve Crouch will take the chair role at OGF28 and take the group forward together with his fellow chairs Shahbaz Memon and Ravi Madduri. Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.