Folks, This is an update for the ACS-WG (Application Contents Service WG) mentioned in the minutes. Please join yourself and those who are interested into the acs-wg mailing list. To do so, you can send mail to <Majordomo@ggf.org> with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe acs-wg your-mail-address Also, we will have sessions at GGF13. We welcome you to join so please prepare for it! I will let you know when the schedule is decided. Here are the ACS-WG project page: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg I have added slides and docs for those who want to join the discussion newly: - Working drafts: https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewCategory.php?group_id=147&category_id=889 - GGF12 Slides: https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewCategory.php?group_id=147&category_id=891 Regards, Keisuke Fukui Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Andreas Savva wrote:

Minutes attached.

Gridforge: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20050126/en/1

-- Andreas Savva Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

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* ACS-WG approval

- Hiro mentioned that a new OGSA-related working group---ACS-WG--- has been approved. There was a presentation about it in a past OGSA F2F and a mention in the OGSA version 1.0. - ACS stands for Application Contents Service. It is a kind of repository service, including archive format, for all data related to deploying and configuring applications. It is related to (but not overlapping with) CDDLM. - The BoF was held during GGF12. - It is Business Grid project initiated. Initial draft is based on technology developed by the project. - There is a relation between ACS and SolutionInstallion recently published by IBM and others. There is discussion on defining a common archive format. (Issue raised during the GGF12 BoF.) - Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu), Peter Ziu (Northrop Grumman) and Tom Studwell (IBM) are the co-chairs