All, The detailed program for GGF-16 can now be found at http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/ We have an interesting agenda lined up, security-wise. "Here and now" is the recurrent theme of this event, and that shows in the workshop program as well, with multi-grid interoperability, authorization here and now, and "Grid meets Shib" on the agenda. The virtualization ad- hoc BOF and the "Security and Privacy needs of Health Grids" sounds very interesting as well. Not to mention our usual RG and WG sessions, of course! On Wednesday, February 15th at 13:30 we have our security area session, for which we would like to take the opportunity to attract your interest with this invited presentation: Title: Microsoft R&D: Distributed Security for Grids Presenter: Mr. Blair Dillaway, Software Architect, Advanced Strategies and Policy Abstract: This talk will present an overview of distributed security work being done at Microsoft that is relevant to problems faced by the Grid community. It will identity the challenging Grid security problems we are focusing on and review Microsoft technologies that provided a foundation for this work. It will then discuss some of the ways the technologies are being evolved and integrated to create more practical and flexible solutions. In addition, we (your ADs) believe that the security area needs to start looking a little bit into the future[*], to make sure that our activities line up well with the new and emerging needs. This will also be discussed at our area meeting. Hope to see many of you there! Olle & Dane [*] Given that we have a guest from Microsoft, perhaps it would be appropriate to dub the area meeting "The Road Ahead". ;-)