[nm-wg] urgent - sessions at the next GGF

[Cees de Laat]

I will not be able to go to the next GGF, but I fully support you 
guys if you want to meet. (p.s. that means that if you need my oke 
for meeting room...)

Best regards,
Cees.


At 4:38 PM +0000 3/14/06, Leese, MJ (Mark) wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>The next GGF...
>
>     GGF17: May 10-12th 2006 in Tokyo
>
>...is sneaking up on us. So much so that we need to decide by 
>*Friday* whether we'd like to hold any NM-WG sessions.
>
>My personal opinion, and one that I think will be shared by others 
>in the group, is that we're not at a stage where we want or need a 
>face-to-face meeting. If anything, more phonecalls would be better. 
>However, like last year's South Korea GGF, we may want to keep NM-WG 
>visible, and present our work in Asia-Pac to encourage participation 
>from that region, especially since we've made a lot of progress with 
>the V2 schemas and have some software (e.g. perfSONAR) as a 
>demonstrator. If people see value in this, then it's likely that I 
>can attend GGF. Alternatively, you may want us to wait until things 
>are "bulletproof" and really ready for release. I'm open to 
>suggestions!
>
>The following GGF will be the second "GridWorld" (the result of 
>another team-up with IDG World Expo and GlobusWorld) in Washington 
>DC, September 11-14th.
>
>Can you please let me have your thoughts asap (cc'd to the list) so 
>we can reach a consensus by Friday, which is also the deadline for 
>requesting sessions?
>
>Hope everyone and everything is good. We'll have a call as soon as I 
>get around to arranging one :)
>
>Mark.
>
>
>Mark Leese
>
>Network Development Engineer	tel: +44 (0)1925 603730
>CCLRC, Daresbury Laboratory	http://gridmon.dl.ac.uk/~mjl


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