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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Dear<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black">Data Access Layer Working Group</span><span style="color:#212121">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">The Northern Autumn Interop Meeting will take place in Tucson, Arizona, USA from 10 – 12 November, following the ADASS meeting. Remote attendance will also be supported.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We invite you to contribute discussions on DAL related topics for the interop. These could be discussions on DAL standards either established, in development or proposed. We also encourage implementation reports from data centres using
and implementing the standards, and are particularly interested in your experiences whether you are using your own software or one of the existing implementations.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Please send your contributions with a speaker name, title and abstract to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:james.dempsey@csiro.au" title="mailto:james.dempsey@csiro.au"><span style="color:#0078D4">james.dempsey@csiro.au</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr" title="mailto:gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr"><span style="color:#0078D4">gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> .
If you are unsure about the suitability of a talk, or are a first time contributor, please get in contact with us and we can discuss it.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Please provide contribution details by Thursday, 19 October to allow us time to organise the talks.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">James Dempsey an Grégory Mantelet</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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