Notes on the GDB meeting 26-11-2002
Alberto Masoni, 27-11- 2002

	Country	Representative	Participating to the meeting	
at 	Austria 	Dietmar Kuhn 	NO	
ca	Canada	Randy Sobie	NO	
ch	Switzerland	Christoph Grab	NO	
de	Germany	Klaus-Peter Mickel	Yes	
dk	Denmark	John Renner Hansen	Yes	
es	Spain	Manuel Delfino	Yes	
fi 	Finland 	Klaus Lindberg 	NO 	
fr	France	Denis Linglin	Yes	
in	India	D.D.Bhawalkar	No	
it	Italy	Federico Ruggieri	Yes	
jp	Japan	J. Kawamoto	NO	
nl	Netherlands	Kors Bos	NO	
pl	Poland	Michal Turala	yes	
ru	Russia	Slava Ilyin	NO	
se 	Sweden 	Anders Ynnerman 	no 	
tw	Taiwan	Simon Lin	Yes	
cz	Czech Rep.	Milos Lokajicek	NO	
uk	United Kingdom	John Gordon	Yes	
usa 	United States 	Vicky White & Lothar Bauerdick 	YES 	
CERN	Wolfgang von Rüden	yes	
ALICE	Yves Schutz	Yes  (A. Masoni)	
	Federico Carminati	NO	
ATLAS	Gilbert Poulard / Laura Perini	Yes	
	Norman McCubbin	no	
CMS	Tony Wildish	Yes	
	David Stickland	No	
LHCb	Eric van Herwijnen	Yes	
	John Harvey	No	
Project Leader	Les Robertson	Yes	
GDB Chair	Mirco Mazzucato	Yes	
GDB Secretary	Alberto Masoni	Yes	
Grid Deployment Mgr	Ian Bird	Yes	
Grid Technology Mgr	Fabrizio Gagliardi	No	
Fabric Manager	Bernd Panzer	NO	
CTO	David Foster	YES	
Applications	Torre Wenaus	No	
	Oxana Smirnova	NO	
SC2 Chair	Matthias Kasemann	Yes	

•	The minutes of the previous meeting are approved

•	Reports from working groups.

-	WG-1 report, J. Renner, D. Foster
Report being prepared, next meeting in two days,  after a few days the document should be sent  out to an advisory group (M. Livny, Ruth Pordes, Carl Kesselmann, Bob Jones, Anders Ynnermann) for suggestions and comments. Recommended sw will be based on VDT and EDG packages.  The paper is in evolution, presently being discussed within the experiments. The document should be in a reasonable shape for the next GDB meeting.

-	WG-3 M. Delfino. 
D. Kelsey started working on the document, a draft should be sent around within the WG in a few days. Definition of LCG-1 (mail sent around 5 days ago within the GDB, deadline for comments for Dec 1st).

-	WG-2 V. White. 
Vicky apologies for the delay. Problems in bootstrap. Phone meeting to be scheduled before GDB Dec. 9th  meeting and a full meeting  of the working group scheduled  at CERN in the week of Dec. 9. Status report will be presented at GDB Dec. 9th  meeting

-	WG-4 F. Ruggieri 
A draft document will be circulated to the GDB within this week. Updated version for GDB Dec. 9th  meeting and final version before Christmas.

•	Resource table is almost complete and should be put soon on the web (Italy, Russia, US contribution still missing but should be available by the end of the week)
•	A proposal for next years meeting dates will be circulated soon

•	Next meeting Dec. 9th  at CERN 11am – 6pm