Then it went through a cycle of standardisation efforts and experiences in projects like European DataGrid, OSG in the United States, Naregi in Japan and PRAGMA in the Pacific area. There was also an evolution in standardisation bodies. First from the emergence of the Global Grid Forum and the formation of the Enterprise Grid Alliance. Later these merged into the Open Grid Forum (OGF).

The coming period will be the age of the "terrific teens", Steven Newhouse said. They will exploit the matured reliable infrastructure. In this phase it will be the National Grid Initiatives and the European Grid Initiative that will organise the European Grid.

The EGEE projects also went through different phases. It started with one scientific community that wanted to share an e-resource. Then it did get more complicated and at the end, there are multiple communities that are using and sharing multiple types of resources.

Steven Newhouse is also active in OGF. In that context he mentioned the GLUE 2.0 specification that has become a standard this week. GLUE - short for Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment - is used to define the structure, resources and properties of a Grid. This standard is embraced by many projects and organisations that have contributed to it: EGEE, ARC, UNICORE, PLatform, OSF, APAC, NGS, NAREGI, OMII-Europe, OGF-Europe and others.

With EGI we see the start of the e-Infrastructure exploitation phase. OGF has played an important role with its ever expanding portfolio of standards, according to Steven Newhouse.