Areas, Working and Research Groups

The work of Global Grid Forum is performed within its various working groups and research groups. A working group is generally focused on a very specific technology or issue with the intention to develop one or more specific documents aimed generally at providing specifications, guidelines or recommendations. A research group is often longer-term focused, intending to explore an area where it may be premature to develop specifications.

Area	Working Groups	Research Groups
Applications and Programming Models Environments (APME)	Grid Checkpoint Recovery (GridCPR-WG) Grid Remote Procedure Call (GridRPC-WG)	Advanced Collaborative Environments (ACE-RG) Applications and Test Beds (APPS-RG) Astronomy Applications (Astro-RG) Grid Computing Environments (GCE-RG) Grid User Services (GUS-RG) Life Sciences Grid (LSG-RG) Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications (PNPA-RG) Preservation Environments(PE-RG) Production Grid Management (PGM-RG) User Program Development Tools for the Grid (UPDT-RG)
Architecture (ARCH)	New Productivity Initiative (NPI-WG) Open Grid Service Common Management Model (CMM-WG) Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA-WG) Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI-WG)	Grid Policy Architecture (Policy-RG) Grid Protocol Architecture (GPA-RG) Semantic Grid (SEM-RG) Service Management Frameworks (SMF-RG)
Data (DATA)	Data Access and Integration Services (DAIS-WG) Data Format Description Language (DFDL-WG) Grid File Systems (GFS-WG) GridFTP-WG IPv6 (IPv6-WG) OGSA Data Replication Services (OREP-WG)	Data Transport (DT-RG) Grid High-Performance Networking (GHPN-RG)
Grid Security (GRID SEC)	Authorization Frameworks and Mechanisms (AuthZ-WG) CA Ops (CAOPs-WG) Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI-WG) Open Grid Service Architecture Authorization (OGSA AUTHZ-WG) Open Grid Service Architecture Security (OGSA-SEC-WG)	Authority Recognition (ARRG-RG) Site Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Requirements (SAAA-RG)
Information Systems and Performance (ISP)	CIM based Grid Schema (CGS-WG) Discovery and Monitoring Event Description (DAMED-WG) Network Measurement (NM-WG) Grid Information Retrieval (GIR-WG)	Grid Benchmarking (GB-RG) Relational Grid Information Services (RGIS-RG)
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)		Appliance Aggregation (APPAGG-RG) OGSA-P2P-Security (OGSAP2P-RG)
Scheduling and Resource Management (SRM)	Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management (CDDLM-WG) Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA-WG) Grid Economic Services Architecture (GESA-WG) Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol (GRAAP-WG) Job Submission Description Language (JSDL-WG) OGSA Resource Usage Service (RUS-WG) Usage Record (UR-WG)	Grid scheduling Architecture (GSA-RG) Workflow Management (WFM-RG)