[cads] RE: GGF Community Council Bi-Weekly (AGENDA and ATTACHMENTS)

[Craig Lee]

All,

Below are my (cleaned-up) notes on this morning's Community Council
telecon after Bob F. and others had to jump off.  Please correct if there
are inaccuracies or omissions.

--Craig

March 14 Telecon:  (After Fogel and others had to jump off)

In concluding the discussion of GGF-17 content, WG proposed that the
major grid projects, e.g., the ones involved in Catlett's GIN efforts,
should be invited periodically to present their work, progress and
issues to GGF.  (A single project should be invited to present every
GGF, but rather every few meetings or perhaps once a yearf.  We could
perhaps establish a practice of letting a major grid project brief
once a year.)

After discussion of GGF-17 content, we discussed the VOC (Voice of
Community) and VAF (Vendor Adoption Forum) concepts.

While these concepts and community groups have different focii, they
are in fact related.  While we usually talk about connecting user
groups and standard producers, GF argued that we need to connect

     user groups  <=>  vendors  <=>  standards producers

It was proposed that we organize these VAF/VOC meetings around
specific themes, e.g.,

     Interoperability (being done by GIN)
     Industries (Bio-IT, Auto, Pharma, Telecom)
     Functionality (job submission, file transfer being two major ones)
     "Does the Emporer Have Any Clothes" (Hype management for groups
         not realizing expected benefits)

GF proposed a meeting on Job Submission motivated by the recent
MS HPC document circulated at GGF-16.  This could include presentations
by both large grid projects _and_ vendors, e.g.,
    Univa, IBM, MS, DataSynapse, OMII, China National Grid, NaReGI, EGEE
    ... others?

Such a meeting should be attended by all types of users, especially
representatives of major industries wanting to investigate grids,
e.g., Cheryl Dondinger of SAS.

Similar efforts could be done around industries, e.g., Telecom.
With the progress in the Telecom group and interactions with ITU-T,
RC will gauge interest in a meeting w/ Japanese Telecoms and other
regional telecoms, e.g., China, Singapore, Korea.  (He will most
likely go through local contacts like Satoshi M. and Satoshi S.)

GF suggested strategy: Make a list of such topics and send to targeted
people from all important groups.  We should coordinate among
ourselves such that each targeted person only gets one email from a
known colleague (whose email they will actually read and respond to!).

While there is definite interest in pursuing this approach, we need
a cognizant individual to spearhead the effort.

CL will brief the use case analysis effort at the next telecon.