[wg-all] New Group, New Documents, GGF14 Update

[Steve Crumb]

Contents
1. New Production Grid Services Group Approved
2. Recent Additions to the GGF Document Series
3. GGF14 Program Updates

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1. The GFSG has approved the Production Grid Services Research Group 
(PGS-RG).  This group will combine and extend the work of the Production 
Grid Management (PGM-RG) and the Grid User Services (GUS-RG) Research 
Groups.   The email list is pgs-rg at ggf.org and the GridForge project is: 
http://forge.ggf.org/projects/pgs-rg.


2. The GGF Editor and GFSG have approved the following documents for 
publication in the GGF Document Series.  These documents may be accessed 
at: http://www.ggf.org/documents.

GFD.48 Authority Recognition
P. Madsen, D. Chadwick (Authority Recognition RG)
GFD.47 GridFTP v2 Protocol Description
I. Mandrichenko, W. Allcock, T.Perelmutov (GridFTP WG)
GFD.46 Operations for Access, Management, and Transport at Remote Sites
R. Moore (Data Transport RG)


3. Advance registration rates will expire next week for GGF14 (27-30 June, 
Chicago).  Online and faxable registration forms can be accessed via 
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm.
In addition to the working and research group sessions, a highly-relevant 
community-oriented program has been developed.  The preliminary program can 
be seen at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm.


Thanks,

Steve Crumb
Executive Director, Global Grid Forum
+1 630-252-8610 (Office)
+1 630-915-3324 (Cell)
scrumb at ggf.org