Dear colleagues,

I propose that those of the SDD workgroup who are able to participate will meet in Sydney, 12-14 March. If anybody can only come 13-14, she or he is welcome to do so.

It will be a small group, but I hope we can do much hard work. We will attempt to finish a draft of an xml schema in a exiting working session.

Everybody who cannot participate will be informed about the preliminary results, so that no final decisions will be made until the next TDWG meeting in autumn 2002 (I still do not know where it will be), where I hope more people will be able to attend.

Those who are planning to come please send a confirmation mail to G.Hagedorn@bba.de. I have asked Karen Wilson to provide us with a small room with an internet connection, many thanks to her!

Best wishes

Gregor---------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn@bba.de) Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) Koenigin-Luise-Str. 19 Tel: +49-30-8304-2220 14195 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30-8304-2203

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