FW: Invitation to public workshop on WSRF

["Vambenepe, William N" <vbp@hp.com>]

Dear OGSI and WSDM working group members,

You are invited to this workshop. I hope many of you can make it.

Regards,

William

-----Original Message-----
From: Vambenepe, William N 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:19 PM
To: Vambenepe, William N
Cc: 'Steve Graham'; 'karlcz@isi.edu'; 'foster@mcs.anl.gov';
'jafrey@us.ibm.com'; 'Tom Maguire'; tuecke@mcs.anl.gov; 'Sanjiva
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Subject: Invitation to public workshop on WSRF


The authors of the recently-published WS Resource Framework white papers
and specifications (WSRF, Modeling stateful resources with Web services,
WS-ResourceProperties, WS-ResourceLifetime) are hosting a 1-day workshop
on February 23, 2004, starting at 9am and ending at 5pm. This workshop
will be hosted by Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino, CA. 
  
This is an ad-hoc, open forum for 1) the authors to share background
information on the design of the specifications and to receive feedback
and 2) software vendors and other interested parties to discuss their
ideas about the specifications and practicality of implementing these
and related Web Services specifications. 

The agenda for the workshop will include a review of WS Resource
Framework by the authors, relationship to other WS specifications,
participant q&a and feedback, and discussion of next steps and standards
plans.   

More information on these documents is available at:
http://devresource.hp.com/drc/specifications/wsmf/index.jsp
http://www.globus.org/wsrf/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-resource/ 

More information about the workshop process is available at: 
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/WS-Specworkshops/ 

More information about the meeting site in Cupertino is available at:   
http://devresource.hp.com/drc/specifications/wsrf/invite.jsp

We'd like this to be an open meeting and collect a broad range of ideas.
If you are interested in participating in the discussions, please reply
to this mail by EOD 17 February 2004.  Feel free to pass this invitation
along to other potential participants, either in your company or
elsewhere. 
  
The authors of the WS Resource Framework documents intend to submit an
updated version of them to a standards body, in which case they intend
to grant a Royalty-Free license to their necessary patent claims.  Note
that in order to attend, in support of this goal, the attached legal
agreement MUST be signed by each attendee.  You may print and fax it
back to 408-447-6205 or bring it with you to the event.   

For the WSRF authors,
William Vambenepe
Hewlett-Packard

WS RF agreement for workshops.doc