Dear Professor Houldsworth, Thank you for your message. We welcome the opportunity to invite you to the PSO General Assembly to be held on 11 July 2001 in Sophia Antipolis, hosted by ETSI. This will be a good opportunity to meet the PSO Council members and the PSO community, as well as to analyse the dimensions of a possible ISO involvement. Please find full details of the PSO General Assembly (including registration and accommodation details) at: <http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_GA_2001/PSO_GA_HOME.htm> http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_GA_2001/PSO_GA_HOME.htm. Looking forward to meeting you soon in Sophia Antipolis. Best regards, Livia Rosu PSO Secretary ========================== Livia Rosu Internet Business & External Relations Officer ETSI, European Telecommunications Standards Institute Sophia Antipolis Cedex, F-06921 France http://www.etsi.org/ <http://www.etsi.org/> Mailto: livia.rosu@etsi.fr Tel: +334.92.94.43.67 GSM: +336.07.59.08.57 Fax: +334.92.38.49.42 -----Original Message----- From: jhouldsworth [mailto:jhouldsworth@iclway.co.uk] Sent: 29 May 2001 23:53 To: livia rosu Cc: Brian Moore Subject: ICANN PSO Meeting ISO is considering applying for membership of the ICANN PSO. ISO seems to meet all the criteria of the current bylaws but I have been asked by Tom Frost, the Chair of ISO/IEC JTC1 to establish informal contact with the PSO Board members (before a formal approach is made) to establish the value to ISO of being a member of the PSO, the cost of membership and the likelihood of the success of an application by ISO. Please note that the contact is to be regarded as informal at this stage and any formal application must come from the ISO Central Secretariat. It seems that the PSO meeting during the ETSI General assembly at Sophia Antipolis on July 11th would be an ideal opportunity to make this informal contact with the current Board members. Perhaps you could establish if the Board members are willing to meet me to discuss the situation, it should not take very long to get their views. Are you able to invite me to the PSO meeting for this purpose? If so, perhaps you could send me the program details and perhaps recommend a hotel where I could stay. Thank You Professor Jack Houldsworth =========================================================================