Hi Hiro and the group, At the EUGrid PMA meeting today in Karlsruhe, Germany ( see the URL http://eugridpma.org/agenda/fullAgenda.php?ida=a062 for details), there was wholehearted endorsement of the idea of starting an OGSA-AuthN working group and for organizing a BOF along these lines at OGF 19 to write the charter and begin the OGSA activities of this group. At this point, I would like to suggest that we formally pursue the steps to create this group. Best, Alan Sill TIGRE Senior Scientist High Performance Computing Center TTU ==================================================================== : 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 : ====================================================================