These notes from the UR-WG meeting at GGF16 are a consolidation of notes taken by Laura McGinnis and myself. Please advise any corrections. Stephen ------- Usage Record Working Group session at GGF16. 1) New Chairs - The current chairs of the UR-WG are no longer active in GGF, nor as far as we know in grid computing. New chairs are therefore needed to complete the activities for which the group is chartered. Stephen Pickles nominated Laura McGinnis, the document editor, to serve as WG chair. No other nominations were made. The attendees expressed unanimous support for Laura as chair. ACTION ITEM: Stephen will post the nomination to the UR-WG mailing list for consensus, then shepherd the nomination through the GFSG for final approval. 2) Likewise, the original authors of the Usage Record specification are no longer involved, and the document needs fresh input so that public comments can be addressed. In particular, at least one person with a solid understanding of XML is needed to take responsibility for validating the XML schema against the document text is needed. Donal Fellows volunteered for this. ACTION ITEM: Donal Fellows will handle this aspect, and serve as an additional co-author on the document through these final steps. 3) Consolidating the comments: Some comments are duplicates, some are the result of unclear text or highlight material that just needs to be emphasized more. ACTION ITEM: Laura McGinnis will consolidate all of the comments received and post to the mailing list. 4) Resolving comments: All of the commentors will be invited to suggest solutions, which may or may not be included in the final document. ACTION ITEM: Laura McGinnis will forward the consolidated comments to the commentors and invite them to propose solutions. ACTION ITEM: All participants who make significant contributions to the resolution of the comments will be included in the authorship list. All other contributors will be acknowledged in the contributors' appendix at the end of the document. 5) Content: The foundations of the document need to be expressed more firmly at the beginning of the document. In particular, the principles that guided the design - esp atomicity, delivery independence, e.g. - need to be emphasized, so that the reader understands the context and focus of the specification. ACTION ITEM: Laura McGinnis will draft appropriate text and include it in the document. 6) Conference Calls: It was agreed that the UR-WG would benefit from a regular series of conference calls, at least until the comment response process was well underway. Since most of the current members of the WG are from Europe, it was agreed that the call should be based there. The common time of 2pm UTC/9amEST (US) was agreed upon, and Thursday was chosen as the most amenable day for the group. ACTION ITEM: Stephen Pickles will set up the conference call and distribute the call-in information to the group via the mailing list. 8) Timelines: We anticipate that the process of responding to the current comments, revising the specification, re-submission to the GGF editor, and 15 day GFSG review will take 4-6 months. Therefore the revised document should be back into public comment by GGF18. ==================== Stephen M. Pickles ==================== Technical Director, Grid Operations Support Centre Manchester Computing Room G49.1, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester tel: +44 161 275 5974 Oxford Road fax: +44 161 275 6800 Manchester M13 9PL stephen.pickles@manchester.ac.uk