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	Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette 

	No 09,  31 October 1996
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        Title:    Report of the 1996 IERS Workshop 
        Authors:  Chris Reigber, Martine Feissel


   The 1996 IERS Workshop was held at Paris Observatory, 14-16 October 1996. 
It was attended by about 80 scientists. The discussions dealt with the six
topics on which the IERS Directing Board had asked external experts to report
on possible extensions of IERS activities. The topics were as follows.

        1: Missions
        2: Astronomical reference frames
        3: Vertical references
        4: Crustal deformations
        5: Unification of national datums
        6: Global geophysical fluids

   The Workshop adopted a number of recommendations, that are available under
anonymous ftp:

               ftp hpvlbi.obspm.fr     (145.238.100.7)
               userid: anonymous
               passwd: your e-mail address
               directory: /pub/iersworkshop/reports

   The Directing Board met at the end of the Workshop and started to work on 
the implementation of these recommendations. It has established a list of 
possible actions to this end. Indeed the various responses will have different 
time frames. An additional meeting in December 1996 is scheduled to finalize 
the planning of actions.

   The final topic reports will be published in an IERS Technical Note later 
this year.