(Apologies for not sending some of these announcements earlier; there are several new documents to be announced in my next email messages to wg-all. The OGF's Steering Group has decided that new documents should be announced to all members of all OGF mailing lists.) New OGF document published in the Information track: GFD-I.121 Title: OGSA[TM] Data Architecture Author/editors: D. Berry, A. Luniewski, M. Antonioletti. Abstract: The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) presents a vision of a broadly applicable and adopted framework for distributed system integration, virtualization, and management. OGSA provides several capabilities, one of which is data management. This document, produced by the OGSA Data Working Group within the Open Grid Forum (OGF), gives a high-level description of the interfaces, behaviors, and bindings for manipulating data within the broader OGSA architecture. The functionality described covers the storage, movement, access, replication, caching and federation of files and databases. View and download OGF documents here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Chief Scientist of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: newby AT arsc.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby