Hi all, during the preparation of the sessions for Tokyo this week, I noticed that I didn't contribute to OGSA-RSS in the last few months. Thinking about the reasons, I discovered two of them: I am sure this is true for all of us, but my time available for GGF is very limited. Due to other commitments in the last months, I wasn't able to spent more time on OGSA-RSS. The more important reason is that my work has changed in the last months. OGSA-RSS is going to define a scheduling interface which will be applicable to most grid schedulers. The interaction with an RSS- compliant consists of a simple request-response scheme, which is a sensible choice because of the interoperability such a scheme facilitates. My current work focus lies in an area where such a scheme is too simple. I think of a scheduler more in the sense of an agreement- finding and monitoring engine, which is a highly specialized view of the area. I think it is very hard to standardize more than the data formats, e.g. how to describe jobs, in this scenario. This is different from my starting point a year ago, when a mapping of my work to the OGSA-RSS seemed easy. I value the GGF as a place to meet people and exchange ideas, and I will continue to visit future GGFs for this. But I will resign as cochair of OGSA-RSS after GGF17. I hope you understand that I do not criticize the standardization efforts in GGF as a whole - in many other scenarios, the standardization has a lot of benefits. See you in Tokyo for good discussions, Mathias __________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Wirtsch. Ing. (Inform.) Mathias Dalheimer Fraunhofer Institut fuer Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWM) Fraunhofer-Platz 1 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Phone +49(0)631/31600-4484 | mailto:dalheimer@itwm.fraunhofer.de Fax +49(0)631/31600-1099 | __________________________________________________________________