This is an announcement for the paper "Minimal and maximal $p$-operator space structures" by Serap Oztop and Nico Spronk. Abstract: We show that for $p$-operator spaces, there are natural notions of minimal and maximal structures. This are useful for dealing with tensor products. Archive classification: math.FA math.OA Mathematics Subject Classification: 46L07, 47L25, 46G10 Remarks: 9 pages Submitted from: nspronk@math.uwaterloo.ca The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1112.4884 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1112.4884