Dear Otto, In our last meeting in Coimbra I was committed to contact Josep Sole Pareta in order to know his ideas about how to re-launch WG6.10. I have had several phone talks with him. Between these talks he has met Iannis Tomkos (the person who won the election as Vice-Chairman). They work together, as well as with some other members of WG6.10 and involved in the organization of ONDM. Also they cooperate in the Network of Excellence E-Photon-1 dedicated to the optical and photonic networking. They are ready to take profit of all these synergies to relaunch WG6.10. I have explained some inconveniences of the current organization of ONDM (no ERF, no steering committee, etc.). They were not aware of this administrative/organizational aspects of IFIP conferences. I have suggested him to look at our web page our event organizer manual. Also, both Iannis and Josep, are ready to attend our next meeting in Paris and explain their plans for transforming the almost death WG6.10 into a real Working Group. Although during our meeting in Coimbra I was yet sick (remember my panchreatitis) I think I have filled the commitment I received. If you need any other information, do not hesitate to contact me. I will try to enhance the information. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi@uib.es =========================================================================