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OGF Areas and Groups

eResearch Function

Vice-President: David Wallom
At-large AD: David De Roure
At-large AD: Dennis Gannon
At-large AD: Thilo Kielmann

The eResearch function is responsible for working with scientific, engineering and education communities to enable productive forums to identify and align requirements, workshop solutions, and share progress.

Build, Test and Certification of Grid Software Community Group (btc-cg) Education and Training (et-cg) Grid Reliability and Robustness RG (gridrel-rg)

Grid Interoperation Now Community Group (gin-cg) Production Grid Services-RG (pgs-rg) Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - RG (risge-rg)

Applications Developers and Users RG (apps-rg) Astronomy Applications RG (astro-rg) Grid Information Retrieval RG (gir-rg) Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences CG (hass-cg) Life Sciences Grid RG (lsg-rg) Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG (pnpa-rg) Preservation Environments RG (pe-rg)

Grid Computing Environments RG (gce-rg) Semantic Grid RG (sem-rg) Workflow Management RG (wfm-rg)

Enterprise Function

Vice-President: Ian Osborne
At-large AD: Cheryl Doninger
At-large AD: Nick Werstiuk
At-large AD: Ravi Subramaniam
At-large AD: Robert Cohen

The Enterprise function is responsible for working with business, IT and vendor communities to enable productive forums to identify and align requirements, workshop solutions, and share progress.

Enterprise Grids Requirements RG (egr-rg) Storage Networking Community Group (sn-cg) Telecomm Community Group (telco-cg)

Standards Function

Vice-President: Chris Smith
At-large AD: David Snelling

The Standards function is responsible for development of architectures, specifications, roadmaps and glossaries for distributed computing software through OGF working groups and through the application of the OGF document process. The Standards function includes the management of technical liaisons with other Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and to promote the adoption of standardized and interoperable distributed computing software.

Applications	Distributed Resource Management Application API WG (drmaa-wg) Grid Remote Procedure Call WG (gridrpc-wg) Simple API for Grid Applications WG (saga-wg)
Architecture	OGSA Naming Working Group (ogsa-naming-wg) Open Grid Services Architecture WG (ogsa-wg) Production Grid Infrastructure WG (pgi-wg) Reference Model Working Group (rm-wg)
Compute	Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol WG (graap-wg) Grid Scheduling Architecture RG (gsa-rg) High Performance Computing Profile WG (hpcp-wg) Job Submission Description Language WG (jsdl-wg) OGSA Basic Execution Services WG (ogsa-bes-wg) OGSA Resource Selection Services WG (ogsa-rss-wg)
Data	Data Format Description Language WG (dfdl-wg) Database Access and Integration Services WG (dais-wg) Digital Repositories Research Group (dr-rg) Grid File System Working Group (gfs-wg) Grid Storage Management WG (gsm-wg) GridFTP WG (gridftp-wg) Info Dissemination WG (infod-wg) OGSA ByteIO Working Group (byteio-wg) OGSA Data Movement Interface WG (ogsa-dmi-wg)
Infrastructure	Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications WG (fvga-wg) Grid High-Performance Networking RG (ghpn-rg) Network Mark-up Language Working Group (nml-wg) Network Measurement and Control WG (nmc-wg) Network Measurements Working Group (nm-wg) Network Service Interface WG (nsi-wg) Open Cloud Computing Interface WG (occi-wg)
Liaison	Standards development organizations Collaboration on networked Resources Management (scrm-wg)
Management	GLUE Working Group (glue) OGSA Resource Usage Service WG (rus-wg) Usage Record WG (ur-wg)
Security	Certificate Authority Operations WG (caops-wg) Firewall Issues RG (fi-rg) Levels of Authentication Assurance Research Group (loa-rg) OGSA Authorization WG (ogsa-authz-wg)