Final Agenda for SPG Meeting

by Ananth Rao — last modified 2006-10-30 12:25

Final Agenda for July SPG meeting:

10:00 Introductions
10:05 SPG background - Rich Ullman
10:15 WMS Review update - Allan Doyle
10:30 HDF5 & HDF5-EOS update - Helen Conover
10:45 HDF5 - Elena Pourmal
11:00 SWEET - Rob Raskin
11:30 ESMF – Chris Hill
12:00 – 1:00 lunch
1:00 Marine Geoscience Data Management System – Bob Arko
1:30 International Institute for Climate and Society – Benno Blumenthal
2:00 NetCDF -- Ben Domenico
2:30 FGDC Standards Lessons Learned – Bill Tolar
3:00 Process Issues
- Does there need to be relatively quick finality to reviewing a spec? How long before getting enough operational reviews (WMS)?
- What is “overwhelming positive” response to a review? How many reviews?
- How to improve the number of reviews we get
- Role of community leader for standards process approval – how important is the community leader?
- Clarify role of RFC author
- Clarify role of community leader
- Names of email lists - Name of RFCs vs RFC email lists. ESE-RFC-00x vs SPG-RFC-00x vs NES-RFC-00x (NES stands for NASA Earth Science)
4:00 SPG Goals for the year – ALL
- Funding needed to fund the community leader to enable leader to fund RFC editor and facilitate reviews.