hello, Donal and Everyone: I's been great pleasure for being proposed as a co-chiar for UR group. Many thanks for the proposal. At the moment, it still hard to figure out every details would be for UR discussion in OGF 21. But I will be working with Donal on it. Just a little bit initial ideas on deliverables Donal proposed. Maybe we can put Summary Usage Schema on board, at least for evaluation of potential gaps of usage properties of UR version 1 and proposed summary usage schema. Also as Donal mentioned, we need to collect extra requirements of standard base properties for next version of UR as well. So, if anyone got any ideas please do send email around with possbile use cases so that we can identify your requirements in appropriate context. Many thanks School of Engineering and Design Brunel University Mobile: Mobile: ++44(0)7871876894 X. Chen ________________________________ From: ur-wg-bounces@ogf.org on behalf of Donal K. Fellows Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 10:56 To: Mailing List for UR-WG Subject: [UR-WG] UR Group Chairs 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. -- ur-wg mailing list ur-wg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ur-wg