[ogsa-wg] OGF Use Cases Workshop - Updated CFP

[Steven Newhouse]

Ravi,

I'm sure you were at the Town Hall Meeting II in Boston - and for those that were not have read the letter from Paul and Craig in the Grid Connections letter. There is an URGENT need to connect back to the community side of OGF - I include the academic & commercial enterprises and the research space in the community.

Firstly, if there is output from the Enterprise Council - where is it? I looked around on the EGR-RG groups and found some material. Some of which looked relevant - other stuff I found did not... Did I miss anything - please provide pointers. Where is the output from all of these events? I do not feel it has fed back into the standards activity - I'm not sure if that's our fault for not looking or the Enterprise for not telling us... I'm really not concerned about what went on in the past - we need to look to the future.

Regardless, OGF is at a critical point. We have specs coming out of the standards council that we need to find a route for adoption. Yet the OGSA-WG use cases date back to a set of scenarios that do not seem to align with the way the vast majority of the people I (and others) talk to at OGF are using Grids in their broadest sense.

Why is that? This is what the workshop will try to answer. I certainly agree it will not be easy.

My experience is that to get good use cases from end-users you need to do this more or less one on one. Hence the reason for the small hopefully intimate venue. This will not be a workshop in the traditional sense.

> If there are some specific requirements for this effort, please
> communicate that to the Enterprise Council we would be glad to
> incorporate and I would urge as OGF that we not splinter and duplicate
> activities.

I'm sorry you (and the enterprise council?) see this as an action that is splintering and duplicating OGF activities. If the enterprise council has this information to hand... please let us all know. If it does not then this is not by its definition duplication!

Steven