OGSA ByteIO WG Status of working group © 2006 Open Grid Forum

2 Group Status Final Draft of Experiences Document (v0.7) complete ready for submission to OGF Editor Specification Documents at Proposed Recommendation stage passed 6 month time limit ready for approval by GFSG once (in parallel with?) Experiences Document approved Interoperation Document still a draft in editor pipeline Time paradox: interoperability completed before interop doc completed publication process! Suggestion to simply ask for it to be published as stands as comments do not impact interoperability process and syntax errors are documented in Experiences document Use Case document still a draft in working group Could add new cases which feature ByteIO + RNS etc. Need to decide whether to publish as is

© 2006 Open Grid Forum 3 Future plans Potential additional work for group complete use case document inc. security scenarios encourage uptake in different middlewares and applications test security enabled interop scenario test for anomalies in performance and scalability test implementation interoperability for transfer mechanisms apart from simple Need to focus on socialisation whilst documents complete editor process Not quite finished yet, but we do not think we need another F2F meeting