Status report, GWS-WG 2005-01-09 VO Support Interfaces - Draft spec. currently at v0.21 - Waiting for WSDL, XSD definition before promoting to v1.0 WS-I conformance - Apache-Axis 1.2 promises better basic-profile conformance and is immenent - AstroGrid planning an upgrade to this Axis version for better compatibility Single Sign-On - Introductory Note still in draft; hope to complete and publish this week. - Message protocol spec (still) in draft at v0.1. - PKI spec not drafted yet; intend to produce a draft by end of January. - Delegation is a problem; intend to produce a note explaining the issues. - Substantive progress still blocked pending input from other WG on issues raised at Pune; GTR to email round this week and ask again. - Shibboleth-vs-WS-Security question still open Asyncronous activities - Still waiting for outline approval of v0.1 from other WG; GTR to ask again this week by email. - Discussions at AstroGrid consoritum meeting revealed possible new semantics to be added; GTR to produce v0,2 of the spec with this addition. VOStore - Spec currently at v0.13. - Partial, trial implementation inside current AstroGrid system.