Peter Radford wrote:

I have a suspicion that you've mis-typed something on the IFIP/IEEE case

'Answers received thus far may be classified in two parts: - The Americans are in favour of IEEE (the copyright issue seems to be of no impoortance for them, at least nbody has said a single word about that aspect) - The Americans are more on the IFIP side.

^^^^^^^^^^ Non-Americans

They say e.g. "Do you think that there should be only one organisation world-wide? There is need for more".

Of course this was a "Freudian" mis-type'. Thanks for detecting it. Thanks to those of you who contributed to the discussion already. If others want (and agree) that their arguments will be included in the meeting documents then please send them to me today! Next week there is limited chance since our copy machine risks to explode. Best regards Otto