The Globus Consortium is pleased to welcome its newest member, Cisco Systems. Cisco has been a long-time contributor to the Grid computing evolution, but their addition to the consortium signifies a formal commitment to the enterprise requirements of the Globus Toolkit, which is exciting for obvious reasons. We look forward to sharing more network-specific considerations for Grid computing ongoing.

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A few months back we detailed the Globus Consortium's first three projects that represent a varied spectrum of benefits that will be contributed back to the Globus and Grid standards communities. Here is an update on two of them:

Consortium Sponsored Bug Fixing for the Globus Toolkit

The Globus Consortium has committed to funding resources dedicated to fixing bugs in the Globus Toolkit code base. All fixes have been an will continue to be submitted back to the open source Globus Toolkit and available for integration into subsequent releases of the Toolkit.

To date the following bugs have been cleared by this effort:

• 2651
• 2934
• 1476
• 3189
• 2968
• 3234
• 3513

The following bugs are in process and near completion:

• 3234
• 3129
• 3520
• 2848
• 3705
• 1239
• 3082 / 3083 / 3086

The following bugs are in the queue and efforts to clear them will commence as soon as the appropriate resources can be cleared:

• 3705

Globus Toolkit Internationalization and Localization Guidelines

Given the international user base of the Globus Toolkit, the Globus Consortium is funding globalization efforts to further promote the Toolkit in the world marketplace. The Consortium is sponsoring a survey of Globus Alliance organizations, Consortium members, and industry best practices regarding globalization, in order to define the requirements and appropriate approaches for Globus software globalization. Based on this survey, the following documents will be produced.

• Globus Internationalization Coding Guidelines: This document articulates globalization requirements, and recommends approaches that should be followed by contributors to the Globus software to ensure that all Globus software is correctly and consistently internationalized. This work has completed. The 135+ page document that details these guidelines will be distributed by the Consortium shortly.


• Globus Localization Guidelines: This document recommends procedures on how best to localize Globus software that has been authored using the approaches defined in the Globus Internationalization Coding Guidelines. The 30+ page document that details these guidelines will be distributed by the Consortium shortly.

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