Hello,

I'm planning to show up for the second day of this meeting (morning
and hopefully early afternoon).

I'm currently involved with co-chairing the GridIR working group
<www.gridir.org>.  GridIR is a proposed "recommendation" going through
the standards process of the Global Grid Forum.  Its purpose is to
define IR standards on the grid, and we think that part of it will
benefit directly from the efforts that have been applied to Z39.50 and
SRW.

We would like to work with this group if any of you are interested, or
at least we would like to use significant parts of SRW/CQL assuming we
can figure out how to do that.  I have great respect for the work and
expertise that have gone into Z39.50 over many years (and got to be
involved with it in the early '90s).  We don't wish to reinvent the
wheel, and so I'm hoping to learn more about developments in this
group, etc., and work with others such as Matthew Dovey who are active
and knowledgeable in both SRW and GridIR.  I'm not planning on any
sort of formal discussion for my part (unless that is desirable), but
mainly coming to listen and discuss if appropriate.

Nassib