Hi everyone As we all know, Laura's planning to step down as chair of this group due to changing priorities. Thanks for your efforts, Laura; they've helped us finally get URv1 out. But we know we need to go further; there is a need for improvements to the usage record scheme to take into account today's (and tomorrow's) requirements, especially in the areas of non-compute resources and aggregate records. We also need to progress the URv1 to having some experience documents; I believe there is experience with it out there on the basis of things we've seen during the public comment period, so it would be great to collect these together and publish them. This means we need to get some new chairs; three would be ideal, but without any nothing will get done. To that end, I propose myself, Donal Fellows (of the University of Manchester) as one chair. I'm also told that Xiaoyu Chen (of Brunel University?) is willing to be another; his assistance will be very welcome. As I noted, a third chair would be very helpful, and I for one would prefer it if it was someone with more industrial experience (and not UK-centric); although the large-scale academic Grids are important use-areas for UR, we really need to have a broader scope so that we don't miss stuff. But with two proposed chairs we'll be able to progress work anyway. Which brings us to the next step: charter revisions. Any ideas or shall we just add another deliverable or two? :-) Donal.