As a result of extensive discussions at the IVOA Interoperability Meeting in Trieste, Italy in May, progress was made on the Table Access Protocol (TAP) and Astronomy Data Query Language (ADQL). TAP is a much more general table and catalog search interface than the simple cone search, and will provide much needed capabilities for querying and comparing complex databases. TAP will accept ADQL queries and will also have a parameter-based interface for simplicity of implementation and greater similarity to existing data access protocols. The ADQL specification underwent revision following the RFC period and is now pending IVOA Exec review. Two partial drafts of the TAP protocol will be merged, and the NVO team will be building several prototypes in order to validate the interface specification prior to the October IVOA Interop meeting.

Preparations for the September NVO Summer School, the fourth to be offered, are nearing completion. Applications were received from over 60 people and 50 were accepted (the applicant pool was excellent this year). The overall program has been prepared and work was nearing completion on updating the software packages and tutorials.

A second Newsletter was distributed to the NVO community mailing list in June. Use of NVO tools in the astronomy community continues steady or increasing, with over 27 million hits on NVO websites and 168,000 user sessions thus far this year.

For a full report of activities in the period April-June 2008, please see http://www.us-vo.org/pubs/files/FY08Q3.pdf.