Results of Munich meeting

1. The Annual Assembly was successfully held. See the report of the president. Manuel Aparicio (IBM) has been elected as a new Director.

2. FIPA 97 has been approved as FIPA 97 ver. 1.0.

3. The 7 FIPA 97 parts have been publicly released and are posted on the FIPA home page.

4. Version 2.0 of specifications of field trials for the 4 application areas selected for 1997 in the expected time frame for trials of mid-’98 has been produced.

5. Field trials will be carried out in 1998 to validate the FIPA 97 specification and promote their acceptance by demonstrating working prototypes of applications based on FIPA 97. Results of field trials will be used to publish FIPA 97 ver. 2.0 in October 98.

6. FIPA's Third Call for Proposals has been approved. The call requests technologies to be specified in 1998. Registrations of intentions to submit one or more proposals have to be received by 31 December 1997 and submissions have to be received in electronic form (word or html format, the latter preferred) by 10 January 1998. Submissions will be posted on the FIPA home page for access by members only.

7. The FIPA workplan has been approved

8. A press conference has been held to illustrate the impact of FIPA 97 on the industry

9. The next meeting will be held in Palo Alto, CA, USA on 26-30 January 1998 and will be hosted by Hewlett-Packard.