GWS @ InterOpOct2008

GWS 1: Current standards: review of UWS, Credential delegation, VOSpace, VOSI and discussion of issues (UWS, VOSI?)

GWS 2: REST and beyond: discussion of development of REST Best Practices document, thoughts on VOSpace 2.0 (RESTful)

GWS 3: Authorization: discussion of the IVOA should tackle authorization - via a centralized authorization service or a distributed service-level approach?

GWS 4: IVOA Web Services: Discussion of whether GWS should be defining versions of IVOA data representation standards (VOTable, STC) that work with SOAP toolkits? Should we be specifying a set of toolkits that we know to work? Should we be pressurizing for a particular approach to web services that does not require anything more that the specification of an XML document as being passed between the client and the service?

GWS 5: There will also most likely be a joint session between GWS, Registry and DAL WGs.