Meeting

[Marco Leoni]

Hi Tony,
    sorry for the late answer, I'm just arrived from Italy.

I would also prefer a face-to-face as bootstrap meeting....mid-March or 
May are both ok for me.


Cheers,
    Marco


Tony Linde wrote:

>I was going to set up a telecon to discuss issues relating to the
>Registry. Then I wondered if it might be better to have a face-to-face
>meeting first followed by one- or two-weekly telecons. 
>
>It would need to be soon to get the ball rolling and I was going to
>suggest somewhere in London in mid-March (Elizabeth could probably
>arrange a meeting room somewhere at UCL) since the date is fairly soon
>and London is relatively central between US and Europe and easy to get
>to.
>
>So, what do people think? Face-to-face meeting or telecon to kick off?
>(Possible agendas for each listed below.)
>
>Cheers,
>Tony. 
>
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>
>As for an agenda for a face-to-face meeting, I was thinking of:
>
>1. Registry options (presentations):
>1.1 OAI
>1.2 GLU
>1.3 WS-I & UDDI
>1.4 JINI
>1.5 ?? - some grid-based registry/ies
>1.6 ?? - agent-based technology/ies
>
>2. Identification options (presentations):
>2.1 ...
>
>3. Scope of IVOA Registry standards (discussion)
>3.1 Vision
>3.2 Specifications required
>
>4. Linking IVOA to Astro & Grid standards
>4.1 FIPS, etc
>4.2 Globus, GGF, etc
>
>5. Use Cases
>5.1 Brainstorm registry functional subdivisions
>5.2 Working groups to develop use cases for each subdivision
>
>5. Organisation & Roadmap (discussion)
>5.1 Meetings & Telecons
>5.2 Schedule
>5.3 Publishable roadmap
>
>With the extent of the agenda, we'll probably need two days. 
>
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>
>If we cannot do a face-to-face meeting, the agenda for the first telecon
>could be something like:
>
>1. Registry options:
>1.1 list of possible options
>1.2 volunteers to write paper on each option
>1.3 deadlines for each paper
>
>2. Scope of IVOA Registry standards
>2.1 brief discussion
>2.2 volunteer to write Vision document
>2.3 volunteer to write Scope and draft specs list
>
>3. Use cases
>3.1 list of functional areas
>3.2 volunteers to form working groups to develop use cases per area
>3.3 deadlines for each use case set
>
>4. Organisation and roadmap
>4.1 meetings and telecons: schedule
>4.2 items for roadmap
>
>The following few meetings will be a matter of putting more detail on
>the Scope and Options documents, then reviewing the use cases and then
>working on the standards.
>
>The identification issue needs to be raised as well but may need more
>bouncing around on the mailing list before we're at a point of having
>options to discuss.
>