Report from GGF14: Finally, OGSA is Real! By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Author 1. OGSA WG Comes of Age First and foremost among the GGF14 happenings was the emergence of the OGSA WG as a viable standards setting body, rather than a "castles in the sky" committee developing abstract architectural concepts that could not be implemented. After years of discussion, the OGSA WG has now identified a core set of Web services standards and described how they can be used together to form the basic building block for Grids. http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=412070&xsl=story.xsl -- Hiro Kishimoto