What is the planned relationship of PRAGMA to other entities?
PRAGMA will maintain an open and collaborative stance with respect to all groups and institutions seeking to advance the worldwide grid and its uses. For example, the Global Grid Forum (GGF) is the organization through which all recommendations for standardization of grid infrastructure should be made. GGF is similar in spirit to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in that it addresses grid infrastructure standards. PRAGMA should be seen as one of several important groups that provide input this infrastructure standardization. A large number of PRAGMA members directly participate in the GGF and/or the APGrid. Furthermore, PRAGMA will closely interact with APGrid (in fact, several key APGrid organizers and participants are part of PRAGMA also), whose key focus is on the development of Grid standards and environments in the Asia Pacific Region. APGrid is essentially the region-specific activity of the global grid forum.
