Dear Martin, Thank you very much for this information. As for the customs, when ITU nominated me as the PSO Secretary this information was made public during the GA last year, 2 months before I took the position. Before the GA, this was announced during the conference call by ITU-T Representative, Mr. F. Bigi, and the announcement was made public by the Minutes of June 21, 2001 Teleconference, point 6: (http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_Minutes/PSO-Minutes-21June2001.txt) So, it could seem that the tradition is to make this information public. However, if you prefer for any reason not to make this information public, personally, I do not see any constraints. What will be the opinion of the Protocol Council Members? As for adding Amy to PSO-PC email reflector, I need the agreement of the Protocol Council because this reflector is intended to be used only by PSO-PC Members and the actual Secretary. However, I will be pleased to forward to Amy the necessary information before teleconference(s), so, she may be aware of what's going on (with the agreement of the Protocol Council). Also, I had a good explanatory training by Ms. Livia Rosu, when I attended PSO GA last year and this was very helpful for me. I would really suggest that Amy "participate" in at least one or two conference call because this is what may really help Amy to get an idea of how to handle this issue. I will be happy to get in touch with Amy this week. Best regards, Vlad -----Original Message----- From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org] Sent: mercredi, 12. juin 2002 02:38 To: Androuchko, Vladimir Cc: pso-pc@ties.itu.ch; Amy van der Hiel; Susan Westhaver; Steve Bratt Subject: Secretary for next year: Amy van der Hiel Dear Vlad, dear PC members, I'm glad to announce that with a lot of help from many people here at W3C, we have found the new PSO Secretary for the next year. Her name is Amy van der Hiel (http://www.w3.org/People/all#amy). We are sure that she will do an excellent job for the PSO. I do not know the customs in this area for the PSO, but our suggestion is not to make Amy's name publicly visible until the actual handover. For the moment, I suggest that you add Amy to the pso-pc list as a silent listener, so that she can get an impression of what's going on. Also, please for the moment make sure that you copy Danny Weitzner and me in correspondence with Amy until she is more familiar with the workings of the PSO. Regards, Martin.