All, Following the Birds of a Feather meeting at OGF19 and approval by the GFSG last week, we are delighted to announce the creation of the Reference Model Working Group of the OGF. This group will build on the OGSA Glossary and the EGA Reference Model, a model that allows the description of grids (services and resources) and how they can be managed, in terms of an intuitive set of components, relationships and life cycles. We will be formalizing this work in UML, comparing and mapping to extant OGF and external standards, and exploring additional representations (RDF/OWL) and serializations (RDFXML, SML etc.). More details about our goals can be found at http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=rm-wg. For those of you who are interested please do join the working group. You can subscribe to the email alias here - http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/rm-wg, or access the project in GridForge here - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/rm-wg. Our first meeting will be by telephone conference call on Weds 21 March 2007, at 3PM GMT, 8AM PDT, 11AM EDT (Note US daylight savings has kicked in earlier this year). Call in details will be on the group Wiki here - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.rm-wg/wiki/HomeP age. We look forward to your joining us for what promises to be and interesting and challenging project! Regards David Snelling and Paul Strong Co-Chairs, Reference Model Working Group