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

[Dan Gunter]

I will not be at the next (or future) GGFs, but I fully support Mark 
eating as much good sushi as possible.

-Dan

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> 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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