I gave a brief report about GGF Semantic Grid Research Group activities to the GGF Architecture Area meeting yesterday (this is the GGF area that includes Open Grid Services Architecture and Semantic Grid). Summary notes below for info. -- Dave Semantic Grid Research Group has featured in the following GGFs: GGF7 Semantic Grid sessions GGF9 Semantic Grid workshop (invited papers) GGF11 Semantic Grid Applications workshop (refereed papers) GGF12 Semantic Grid tutorial At GGF13 we have a session for "outreach" and also discussions in preparation for charter revision. The workshops have been very successful. The Semantic Grid Primer exists in draft form but we want to do more work on this. There is also much work to be done on grid resource description ontologies. There is a european concertation activity in this space. The relationship with GGF CIM activities needs to be developed. This is not a straightforward activity. One of the reasons Semantic Grid is in the GGF Architecture area is to be alongside OGSA so that we can address the application of Semantic Grid technologies in OGSA. So far we haven't achieved much engagement, largely because the activities have not been ready for each other. There are clear indications that this time could now be coming up. Tracking the Semantic Web community, we observe a big push towards "Semantic Web Services" that should be relevant to GGF. Semantic Web Services will be presented, along with the notion of "Semantic Grid Services", at the GGF13 session. We also note that there was a lot of discussion about agents and the grid a few years ago. In some ways we have achieved some of this agenda with services rather than agents, but agents also brought autonomy. The need for this "self-management" is increasingly apparent in GGF, and the agents community is again showing interest in the Grid. Hence this is also a subject of presentation and discussion in the GGF13 session.