Dear all,
our delegate from Chile (Jose Piquer) has communicated his address coordinates. They are:
Jose M. Piquer Dept. Computer Science - Universidad de Chile Blanco Encalada 2120, 3 piso Santiago Chile
Phone: +56-2-689-2736 Fax: +56-2-940-7701 Mobile: +56-9-309-8695 email: jpiquer@dcc.uchile.cl Web Page: http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/%7Ejpiquer
The new list of delegates is attached. Please make use of it! (Sometimes I get some emails such as "I would like to discuss something by phone with you. Please give me your phone number". By checking the delegates addresses such questions are not really necessary).
Another tedious story (which shows that IFIP GA doesn't work very well - at least partly): I have contacxted all the IFIP member countries (i.e. the GA delegates) who don't have a TC6 delegate - from Botswana to Syria. Several times! Almost no reaction at all - apart from Finland who nominated Olli Martikainen and from Ireland who promised to think about a nomination (but nothing happens). This is really frustrating!
On the other hand I learned from our (former?) delegate from Australia, Harry Dutton, that "Council at its last meeting in 2003 appointed Prof Doan Hoang of the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS as the TC 6 representative for 2004/5" and that he, therefore, would not be a committee member any more. I was never informed about that!
And I got the following message from IFIP secretariat no so long ago:
In the TC6 report dated August 2004 Mr. Sunil Dutt JHA is listed again as Indian Representative. According to our records he has already been replaced by N. Chandrasekhar in Nov. 2003. Please advise whether we should put him on the TC6 membership list again and delete Mr. Chandrasekhar.
Needless to say that I was not informed about such a change. We always believed that S V Raghavan would be (re-)installed as Indian TC6 delegate.
All of that shows that IFIP GA (and secretariat!) are not in perfect shape!
Best regards Otto