Many production Grid and e-Science infrastructures have begun to offer services to end-users during the past several years with an increasing number of scientific applications that require access to a wide variety of resources and services in multiple Grids. Therefore, the Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) Community Group (CG) of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) organizes and manages interoperation efforts among production Grid projects. The group demonstrated their efforts at the Supercomputing 2006 conference and since then keep continuing interoperation efforts to reach the goal of a world-wide Grid vision on a technical level in the near future and provide feedback to standardization. This paper describes several highlights and fundamental approaches taken within the GIN-CG to reach interoperation of production Grid and e-Science infrastructures in the areas of information services and modeling, authentication and authorization, job submission and management, data movement, as well as cross-Grid applications.
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