Special Sessions on Validation and Verification at the May 2010 Interoperability Meeting

Session 1: Operations and Applications (Tuesday, 9am)

Draft Agenda:

• Review: (15 min)
  • Ray: I could review discussions from fall (10 min)
  • Discussion Question: (5 min)
    1. Are past recommenations still relevent?
• Operational Health: (45 min)
  • Tom: Update on service monitoring. (10-15 min)
  • Discussion (20-30 min)
• Application development: (30 min)
  • (Mark Taylor, ...)
  • Discussion Questions: (20 min)
    1. Which issues of reliability/compliance give the greatest challenge to developers
    2. How can we ease these challenges?

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Session 2: Curation and Compliance (Thursday, 2pm)

Draft Agenda:

• Registry Curation (45 min)
  • Ray: short summary of some past practices and recommendations (5 min)
  • Discuss Questions:
    1. What practices should projects invest in?
    2. What coordination is necessary?

• Standards Compliance (45 min)
  • one or more short presentations on these topics:
    • status of validators? There hasn't been a lot of activity since fall; is there much to say here? (Ray could review where things are.)
    • data model validation (Mirelle?)
    • service toolkits: Michel, Tody, Dowler, Arviset
  • Discuss Questions:
    1. Should we strengthen the role of validation in the standard process? If so, how?
    2. Where should projects invest? Toolkits? Documentation?

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