The call for contributions to the Second Version of the NESSI-Grid SRA v1.5 will be open until September 30, 2007. We are looking forward to your contribution!.

This call is to contribute to the draft of the Second Version of the SRA (v1.5).

Contribution to the SRA is open to any individual (see below individual contribution) with relevant experience in the business grid area, i.e., it will not be restricted to NESSI members. In fact its promotion to any valuable player is one of the aims of the community involvement activity. Participation of experts from Industry is of special importance and so invitation for participation will be submitted to business oriented working groups, such as the Enterprise Grid Requirements Working Group at OGF. It is also important to count on the participation of experts with a clear view of the state-of-the-art and the challenges in the major technological components of a Grid solution, such as the coordinators of the technical groups in Concertation Task 1 of European projects.

Moreover, there are groups of interest (no legal entities) in the grid community; whose feedback may provide great value to the document. It is understood that in this case (see below groups of interest contributions) the contributors act as representatives of their corresponding groups of interest. The following list is not complete and should be considered as a guide:

• Research Projects. Large grid-related projects, such as FP6 IPs. NextGRID, SIMDAT, AKOGRIMO, XTreemOS, BEinGRID and BREIN are encouraged to participate in the process. Other ongoing STREP and SSA projects, such as GridCOMP, A-Ware, …, are also invited to contribute.
• Infrastructures. European Grid infrastructures, such as EGEE and DEISA, and regional Grid infrastructures, such as D-Grid, UK NGS and NorduGrid, are also encouraged to participate.
• Middleware Solutions. Main Grid OSS communities, such as the Globus Alliance, and middleware projects, such as UNICORE, gLite, GRIA, OMII, GCM/ProActive, …, are also encouraged to participate. Other middleware solutions for utility computing, virtualization, SLAs, management, knowledge and analysis services, service flow description, dynamic VOs, etc. are invited to contribute.

Contributions can have any extension. Accepted contributions will imply that the corresponding contributor gets cited in an acknowledge section. Three approaches have been defined to provide feedback and contribute to the NESSI SRA:

• Individual Contributions: Experts from Industry, Research and Academia can contribute by submitting comments and/or change proposals completing the Contribution Form for Individual Contributors. Submissions will be sent to the Main Contact, Chief Editor and the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator by September 30, 2007. All accepted contributions will be included in the SRA document and the sources will be cited in an acknowledge section.
• Group of Interest Contributions: Representatives of the main groups of interest (research projects, infrastructures and middleware solutions) can contribute by submitting one of the following surveys, which have been designed to extract relevant information according to the type of group. Submissions will be sent to the Main Contact, Chief Editor and the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator by September 30, 2007. The surveys will be analyzed and the results included in the SRA. The name of the representative and the contributing project will be cited in an acknowledge section:
  • Survey Form for Research Projects
  • Survey Form for Infrastructures
  • Survey Form for Middleware Solutions
• Related Analysis. Projects, such as BEinGRID or SIMDAT, and working groups, such as the Enterprise Grid Requirements Working Group at OGF, can also contribute by submitting related analysis, surveys and interviews. Submission will be sent to the responsible for liaison with the grid community. This information will be analyzed in the SRA, and the source will be cited.

Please send to the SOI-NWG mailing list wg [dash] service [dash] oriented [dash] infrastruture [at] nessi [dash] europe [dot] eu any question on the process, the models and the surveys. Plese send submissions to the Main Contact, Chief Editor and the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator by September 30, 2007.