[RUS-WG] Retirement from OGSA-RUS co-chair function

[piro at to.infn.it]

Dear Morris, dear all,

first of all let me say thank you for the precious work you have done!
Unfortunately we can't do everything we're interested in and have to set
priorities. I know that well, I had to make some decisions, too.

I've left INFN to dedicate my time fully to computational
biology/bioinformatics, which means that I'm now with an institution (the
Molecular Biotechnology Center at Turin) that has (unfortunately) not much
interest in Grid Computing.

This does not mean that I'll immediately have to leave the RUS-WG (I keep
my interest in Grid Computing :o), I can continue to do some work in my
"spare time" (and I'm currently working on an update of the spec). But my
institute will not cover any travel expenses and thus I will most probably
not be able to come to further meetings (the next OGF in Catania might be
an exception because I have relatives there, I hope I will be able to show
up, but cannot guarantee it).

Although I can continue to do some work, sooner or later I will likely
have to quit as well, so any help is more than welcome.

Shiraz, of course, has my support if he's willing to dedicate some of his
time and energy to the RUS :o)

To all others: please let us know your opinions, and let's all help to get
some momentum back to the RUS-WG, as Morris said.

Cheers,
Rosario.


> Dear RUS-WG team,
>
>   as some of you probably already know my strong focus is on real
> production
> infrastructures and how open standards can be used with them. Therefore,
> I'm
> chairing the GIN group and, more recently, the PGI group as well.
>
> My focus unfortunately means that I can't continue serving as co-chair of
> the RUS-WG.
>
> It was a pleasure and very rewarding to work with you in the past and I
> hope
> the RUS-WG gets again momentum and will drive the
> accounting/billing/tracking standards strongly required by Grid
> infrastructures today. This will be particularly important when they move
> to
> commercial governance/funding models in the rather near future.
>
>
> Additionally, I would like to propose Shiraz Memon (cc) as a new co-chair
> of
> RUS replacing me. We both share the view that RUS has a close dependency
> with information services (e.g. scalability, query interfaces, etc.). For
> instance, the UR schema, could be like the GLUE schema, used in
> conjunction
> with information services - maybe only with a more restrictive model (i.e.
> tracking changes in information).
>
> Also, Shiraz has good knowledge in WS-RF and is therefore the right person
> to pursue any WS-RF-based renderings of RUS.
>
> But of course, this all is subject to discussion in this group.
>
> All the best for this group!
>
> Take care,
> Morris
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Morris Riedel
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