All,

The first BES teleconference is scheduled for this Thursday, April 21,(US) at 10 AM eastern.

The dial in number (thanks IBM) is:

  Free: +1-800-664-6895

  Toll: +1-719-955-1126

  passcode: 285178

The agenda is:

Agenda bashing

Charter finalization:

            Scope issues:

1) Legacy only or include “service instantiation”

2) Definition of “job” interface – or leave it to another WG

Discussion of future telecon’s, e.g.,

End first agenda

Issues for discussion in the following telecon’s

1) Agreement or not agreement

2) WSRF or WSRF-neutral

3) Metadata/attributes of containers

4) Interface of the service container

5) Interactions with JSDL – terms and semantics of terms

6) I/O specifications and JSDL terms

7) Service containers as manageable entities

Please send us your thoughts on other topics.

Andrew Grimshaw

Darren Pulsipher

Steven Newhouse