Unfortunately I'm unable to make the RIPE meeting at the end of this month. I wish you a fruitful meeting - particularly in the area of networked information services and user support. A couple of items you may wish to consider... The new NSFNET NIC is saying that they may charge for access to their information by non-US sites. They (amongst others) are tasked with providing a Directory of information resources. To be of any value - such a resource would depend on there being a two way flow of information between US and non-US sites in gathering together this info. I wouldn't be happy about them charging for information collected by/from us!! Several reports are available from the Mailbase Server - either via email or anonymous ftp - that may be of interest. In particular - I would like your help in updating the report on Information Sevices and User Support in Europe. Please contact me if you wish to contribute an entry for your country. Reports available: o Report IETF - Washington: Nov 16-20, 1992 (Jill Foster) o Network Training Status Report, Dec 1992 (Jill Foster) o RARE Technical Report 1: User Support and Information Services in Europe. A status report. (JF: editor) o Draft report on Networked Information Retrieval (RARE/IETF/CNI joint NIR WG) (JF: editor) To retrieve a copy, email to Mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the following command(s) as required in the body of the message: send wg-isus ietf.11.92 send wg-isus nw.training.12.92 send rare-wg3-usis rtr-usis-92 send nir consumer.report Alternatively use anonymous ftp to: mailbase.ac.uk file: pub/wg-isus/ietf.11.92 file: pub/wg-isus/nw.training.12.92 file: pub/rare-wg3-usis/rtr-usis-92 file: pub/nir/consumer.report Best wishes, Jill Foster (chair RARE Information Services and User Support Working Group)