Conferences:
* Conferences are becoming of less interest: 
    (Many specialized papers from Ph.D-students. 
    The number of Ph.D.-students are increasing 
    and in many countries it is equired that they 
    during the study have a minimum number of refereed 
    papers). many papers are of limited interest to 
    other people and so the number of participants is
    closely related to the number of papers/authors.
* Customers. 
    Universities: are becoming much more business 
    oriented (innovation, patents,..)
    Research: privatisation: Operators & companies send 
    far less people to conferences.
    (Also sponsoring is much less than earlier)
* Proceedings published in few copies.
    It is ridiculous to produce a book which is distributed
    in 100-200 copies. There are so many conferences and a
    person is only interested in 1-2 papers which he then 
    download from the Webi or from a CD.
    By printing on your own printer you get the colours.
    The pdf-fil includes hyperlinks on the screen.
* Competitors: How come that a monkey organisation as 
    WSEAS can make successful conferences, list a large
    number of journals. (Every week I am invited to give
    an invited paper ....)?
    ICCC died, which organization is next?
* Do we still have an IFIP secretariat in Wien?
    I have received (as far as I remember) no mails,
    printed material or anything else during the last 
    2-3 years. 
    What is the benefit of an expensive secretariat?
    (self-contained: organisation for the organisation?)
* TC6 mail-exploder: I get more and more mails (usually in 
    two copies or more) via the ifip-tc6 mail exploder.
    I guess most of them are non-IFIP (but I only read
    the ones I already know!).
    Why do we offer same lvevl of service to non-IFIP
    conferences as to IFIP conferences?
    The list should be more restricted.
* The WG's could be more well-defined and focussed.
    Two many new conferences instead of using existing
    series.
* TC-members as Villy are too sloppy.