Following are some questions and comments about the current
status of the IERS Combination Pilot Project.  If anybody
can respond, I would appreciate it very much.

* website -- The IERS has a website at
  http://www.iers.org/iers/about/wg/wg3/cfp_cpp.html
but it contains no new information since the time the CPP
proposals were submitted.  There is a separate site at TUM
but it also contains no new information.  There is no public
indication that I can find that the CPP is actually underway;
no IERS Message has ever been sent.  In particular, I would
expect to find the information provided in the letter from
Markus on 04 April concerning location of data files, naming
conventions, etc.

* communications -- The cpp@iers.org e-mail exploder seems to
be dormant (except for this message and the one from Zuheir
and me last month).  I can find no message archive.

* Nice meeting -- I did not see any summary of the Nice
splinter meeting nor any posting of the material presented
there.  This is unfair to the people who prepared material
and to those who could not attend.

* downloading data files -- Access to the data system via
active ftp only is extremely inconvenient.  It should be
accessible via any browser or wget.  When I try to navigate
the site manually, I can find no data files now.  Earlier
there seemed to be IGS GPS solution files and DORIS solutions
from Pascal.  Now the intra-technique directories all seem to
terminate in an inaccessible "bkg" directory.  Even if the
current system actually contained data files, it would not
be possible to use it for any practical purposes because
automated access is necessary.

* solution types -- As Zuheir and I emphasized at the Nice
meeting, it is essential (not simply desirable) to have
long time series of technique solutions.  No meaningful
inter-technique combinations are possible until several
time series are available, as long as possible.

* workshop -- The question of a Fall workshop was raised in
the CPP CfP and in Nice but no further information has been
provided.  While a splinter meeting might be useful, a full
workshop seems pointless to me without at least 6 months
time to process and examine some long solution sets.

If I have misunderstood anything, please accept my regrets
and please correct me.  Best regards,
--Jim