Introduction

Roundtable XXVIII took place on September 25-27, 2013, hosted by DHL in Prague, Czech Republic. The Roundtable was attended by 24 people from 15 members and one first-time nonmember observer. The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event was held immediately prior to the Roundtable on September 23-25, and had 14 participants onsite from 10 members and one firsttime non-member, including one member testing remotely. In total, 25 people attended some portion of the week, including six from North America, one from New Zealand, and the rest from the U.K. and continental Europe.

The Roundtable consisted primarily of technical committee sessions, workshops and BOFs. In addition new member presentations were offered during the Opening Session, as was a special session dedicated to reviewing a proposed restructuring of the Steering Committee. The 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. The Roundtable finished with the CalConnect Plenary Session on Friday afternoon.