Introduction

Roundtable XXVII took place on June 5-7, 2013, hosted by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. The Roundtable was attended by 22 people from 13 members, including 3 new members. The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event was held immediately prior to the Roundtable on June 3-5, and had 13 participants from 7 members. In total, 28 people attended some portion of the week, including three from Europe and one from New Zealand.

The Roundtable was dedicated to technical committee sessions, and informal discussions and networking, with an all-hands Plenary meeting as the last item on Friday afternoon. The Technical Committee sessions were as usual organized sequentially, without competing parallel sessions, as is our standard practice to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of each Technical Committee the opportunity to do so.