Contents 1. New Production Grid Services Group Approved 2. Recent Additions to the GGF Document Series 3. GGF14 Program Updates ---------------------- 1. The GFSG has approved the Production Grid Services Research Group (PGS-RG). This group will combine and extend the work of the Production Grid Management (PGM-RG) and the Grid User Services (GUS-RG) Research Groups. The email list is pgs-rg@ggf.org and the GridForge project is: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/pgs-rg. 2. The GGF Editor and GFSG have approved the following documents for publication in the GGF Document Series. These documents may be accessed at: http://www.ggf.org/documents. GFD.48 Authority Recognition P. Madsen, D. Chadwick (Authority Recognition RG) GFD.47 GridFTP v2 Protocol Description I. Mandrichenko, W. Allcock, T.Perelmutov (GridFTP WG) GFD.46 Operations for Access, Management, and Transport at Remote Sites R. Moore (Data Transport RG) 3. Advance registration rates will expire next week for GGF14 (27-30 June, Chicago). Online and faxable registration forms can be accessed via http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm. In addition to the working and research group sessions, a highly-relevant community-oriented program has been developed. The preliminary program can be seen at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm. Thanks, Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb@ggf.org