Alan's email bounced. -- Hiro Kishimoto From: Alan Sill <Alan.Sill@ttu.edu> Subject: REFEDS Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:02:31 -0600 To: David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@kent.ac.uk> Hi David et al., In response to your question, with no endorsement or criticism implied, see http://www.terena.nl/tech/refeds/ for information regarding the REFEDS initiative. I'm just learning about it myself. (It does include a reference however to eduroam, as we discussed.) I believe there will be further discussion of this topic among others at the next EUGrid PMA meeting (see http://eugridpma.org ). As I mentioned, I believe we need to get buy-in into the AuthZ recharter and goals process as quickly as possible, including formal representation, from such projects as Open Science Grid, the LHC Computing Grid and/or EGEE, PRAGMA, NAREGI, and other communities with an active interest in the authorization area, such as Internet2 and EDUCAUSE. I do not speak for such projects but would like to see them included... and I am excited about this prospect. Best, Alan Alan Sill TIGRE Senior Scientist High Performance Computing Center TTU URL: http://hipcat.net/Projects/tigre ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Admin 233, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ====================================================================