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GGF14 - The Fourteenth Global Grid Forum
June 27-30, 2005
Chicago, IL, USA
Workshop led by the NextGRID project at GGF
14
27th June 2005, .9.00-12.00, Chicago, US
Duration: 3 hours
Expected number of participants: 50
Appeal:
Project members and working group members in all areas
Project and funding decision makers who would like to decide how
and when to invest in working with Standards Development Organisations
(SDO).
Impact: WG members who attend will
recognise new knowledge and experience resources apposite to their
work in these projects and similar projects. WG leaders will use
this knowledge to recruit additional workers from projects. And
will be better aware how to gain their interest, engagement and
release. Project leaders and members will acquire more precise knowledge
of the workings of a standards development organisation. This will
lead to more effective input from projects and better anticipation
of the pace and nature of SDO output.
Organisers: Members of the NextGRID
project: Mark Parsons, Mark Sawyer, Mark Gilbert, David Snelling,
Malcolm Atkinson, Neil Chue Hong.
1) Title
"Why, how and when to invest in working with GGF"-
Improving Interaction between Grid Standards and Projects
2) Purpose
To identify the challenges encountered by projects in working with
GGF.
To capture good stratagies for projects in managing investment in
standards and relationships with standards development organisations.
3) Outline
There are many projects that are making significant implemented
and production grids and others that are undertaking research to
develop insights into the future of grids. Communication and influence
between standardisation and projects should be the norm. However,
we suspect that the effective flow of ideas, insights and results
is not as good as it could be.
Potential challenges include:
*Return on Investment in standards
*Acceptance of standards involvement at board level
*Restrictions on interactions caused by IPR
We will bring together several European, Asian and
North American projects with requirements from standards and with
experience to contribute. These will examine their interactions
with GGF:
* the resources they have invested,
* the standards or community processes that have benefited their
work,
* the standards they have contributed to,
* their assessment of the process and future plans.
From this we will extract and report recommendations
for best practice in forming relationships between major (grid and
e-Science) projects and grid / web service standards development
organisations such as GGF.
4) Programme (timescale and speakers)
Speakers will be posed a set of questions that will be explained
in the introduction.
Introduction
09.00-09.05 Workshop goals and formalities/ Malcolm Atkinson
09.05-09.10 A
summary of the important issues from the point of view of projects
Guy Lonsdale
09.10-09.15 A
summary of the important issues from the point of view of GGF Dave
Snelling
European Project Experience Malcolm Atkinson
09.15-09.35 The
NextGRID project, OGSA and other standards Dave Snelling
09.35-09.50 The EGEE project experience: GSM and other standards
Peter Kunszt
09.50-10.00 CoreGRID
Ramin Yahyapour
10.00-10.10 SIMDAT
Dave de Roure
10.10-10.20 AKOGRIMO
Mr Hubert Herenger
10.20-10.30 Statistics
of UK e-Science Core Programme Engagement in SDOs Malcolm Atkinson
10.30-10.45 << Break for coffee >>
Asian & American Project Dave Snelling
10.45-11.00 NAREGI
Satoshi Matsuoka
11.00-11.15 Open
Science Grid Consortium Ian Foster (Globus)
Discussion (Panel formed from speakers) Guy Lonsdale
11.15-12.00 1 What have the projects achieved?
2 How does that compare with reasonable goals
a) for influencing and creating standards
b) for obtaining standards that help projects
3 How should we undertake standards work in future
4 What resources should projects commit to standards development in the next 18 months
5 What should GGF deliver to projects in the next 18 months
5) Publication
NextGRID will announce the workshop on its website and will there
also make the presentations available after the event. The UK’s
national e-science centre (Direktor Prof Malcolm Atkinson) might
also be able to help with publicising the workshop.
NextGRID will also produce a report from the workshop
which will contain a summary of the best practices for project engagement
and involvement in GGF.
www.epcc.ed.ac.uk
www.nextgrid.org
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