Dear OGF Community: Four new documents have been published by OGF. All OGF documents (including any that are open for public comment) may be found here: www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents These documents were provided by the NSI Working Group: GFD #232: NSI Authentication and Authorization Authors: H. Trompert, J. MacAuley Abstract: This document outlines security requirements placed on Network Service Agents (NSA) when participating in the Network Services Interface (NSI) Connection Service (CS) protocol. It describes in detail how the NSI CS security attributes should be used to deliver integration with end-user authentication and authorization mechanisms. GFD #233: Applying Policy in the NSI Environment Authors: J. MacAuley, T. Kudoh, C. Guok, G. Roberts Abstract: This document describes an approach to applying policy to the Network Services Interface (NSI) Connection Service protocol. GFD #234: Network Service Interface Signaling and Path Finding Authors: J. MacAuley, C. Guok, G. Roberts Abstract: This document provides a discussion of the signaling and path finding models supported by the NSI protocol. GFD #235: Error Handling in NSI CS 2.1 Authors: J. MacAuley, T. Kudoh, C. Guok Abstract: This document describes a set of standard error codes for the NSI CS protocol [GFD.212]. Each error code is formaly defined to ensure consistent error reporting through detailed error explanations and example XML elements. - Greg Newby, OGF Editor -- Gregory Newby Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer / Chef de la Technologie gbnewby@computecanada.ca / (o) 416-228-1234 (f) 416-907-1555 (c) 613-334-8373 155 University Avenue, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3B7 www.computecanada.ca / www.calculcanada.ca / @ComputeCanada