****************************************************************************** DORISMail 06-Aug-2003 17:14:02 Message No 0255 ****************************************************************************** Author: Tavernier Gilles Subject: Official start of the International DORIS Service (IDS) Dear all, it is my great pleasure to announce that the International DORIS Service (IDS) has been officially started on July 1, 2003 as an IAG Service after the decision of the IAG Executive Committee at the IUGG General Assembly in Sapporo. The DORIS Pilot Project Steering Committee has initiated some preliminary statutes of the IDS Service that you can access at http://ids.cls.fr/html/organization/tor.html The present organization of the IDS is described in document http://ids.cls.fr/html/report/Organization_IDS_030701.pd. It currently represents the continuation of the DORIS Pilot Experiment. Please feel free to recontact me if you have any corrections to be added. I would like to thanks here all those who contributed to this success in the past years and I hope that these good news will induce a new impulse in our DORIS related activities. Best regards Pascal -- Pascal Willis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 238-646 Ph : 1-818-393-4748 4800 Oak Grove Drive FAX: 1-818-393-4965 Pasadena CA 91109 Em : Pascal.R.Willis@jpl.nasa.gov Gilles TAVERNIER _____________________________________________________ CNES DSO/ED/AL/MA - Bpi 2002 Phone : 33 - (0)5 61 27 37 76 18, avenue Edouard Belin Fax : 33 - (0)5 61 28 25 95 31 401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9 Email : Gilles.Tavernier@cnes.fr _____________________________________________________ Please do not reply directly to this message, but send comments and suggestions to IDS.central.bureau@cls.fr