Technical Board Meeting

Zuse Institute Berlin
Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
May 6th to 8th, 2002

Organisation

The meeting will take place at the
Seminar Room
Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Takustrasse 7
D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem

Guidlines how to reach ZIB can be found on the ZIB web pages. The Seminar Room is located at ground floor in the 'rounded part' of the building - the rightmost entrance on this image.

There will be a meeting fee of about 55 Euros to cover coffee and lunch for all days, and dinner on Tuesday evening.

Agenda

Monday, May 6:
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  11:30:
    - Document Types and Process (delegate to SC?)
    - LaTeX guides
    - publishing at gridlab.org
    - Coding Guideline documents

  13:00: In-House Lunch (sandwiches or such)
    
  14:00:
    - technical issues in respect to communication infrastructure
      - WHEN will we be able to use OGSA
      - HOW  will we use OGSA
      - HOW  do we use SOAP
      - HOW  do we use WSDL/UDDI/...
      - WHO  will provide security for this infrastructure?
      - Will Services use the GAT for inter service communication
        (proposal by Tom Goodale et. al).
      - If not:  how is inter service communication solved?
        (OGSA and non OGSA services...)

    This discussion will be continued on Tuesday morning.

  17:00: End

  18:00: Get together in the restaurant `Luise' near ZIB
         http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query?ORT=b;LL=%2B52.457874%2B13.291525;GR=3


Tuesday, May 7:
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  09:00: startup coffee
    - review/cont. of WHEN/HOW/WHO discussion

  12:00: Lunch at restaurant `Galileo' at FU Berlin
         (10 min. from ZIB)

  13:30:
    - short review of Golm discussion (incl. comments)
    - Is everybody happy with the architecture?
      - why (not)?
      - improvements?
      - implications?
      - refinement process?

      Please (!) read the review from the Golm meeting!
      We do not want to go through _all_ arguments again, 
      but proceed from what we achieved!

  16:00: Coffee break
  16:15:
    - cont.

  18:00: End

  19:30: Get together at Restaurant `Weizmann' in Prenzlauer Berg


Wednesday, May 8:
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  09:00: startup coffee
    - resumee from Mondays/Tuesdays discussions 
    - cont. if neccessary

  10:00:
    - coordination of tasks between the WPs (in general)
      - procedure for resolving responsibility conflicts
        - examples: 
          - storing meta data and information - MDS or 'local'?
          - visualizing monitoring data - WP8 or WP11?
      - procedure for assigning emerging responsibilities
        - examples:
          - Which WP provides interfaces to OGSA functionality?
          - Which WP provides UDDI/WSIL infrastructure?

    The TB should provide input about these issues to the SC.
    The SC is responsible for resolving these issues.

  
  12:00: In-House lunch

  13:00:
    - coordination of tasks between the WPs (in particular)
      - data models
      - information models
      - communication models

      These models typically have a scope of more than one WP.  How
      do we coordinate their design and deployment?

  15:00:
    - better communication inside the TB

  16:00: End  



    

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