Dear Augusto,
Please find the TC6 report for the IFIP Council in attach to this mail.
It seems that section 9 (Publications) is incomplete, although I don't know when the previous GA took place.
In WG6.1, the following two books have also been published (probably in that period):
- Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II (Publication date: June or July 99) - Testing of Communicating Systems - Methods and Applications (Publication date: August or September 99)
Please, don't forget to address the problem of the cost of IFIP books at the GA. This is becoming a problem, because this increases very much the registration fee, and organizers start contemplating the issue of publishing with another publisher. Also the delay of 12 weeks is still too long (compared to IEEE press and ACM press for example).
Also, Kluwer does not seem to be willing to publish some proceedings electronically (on CD-ROM for example), which would be a way to decrease the registration fee. We approached them for electronic publication of the PSTV/FORTE proceedings without success.
Finally, I'd like to know the number of IFIP books (and which ones) Kluwer has managed to sell at that huge price.
Best regards, Guy
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