First, a successful 1994 from all of us at the RIPE NCC! As of today our staffing has changed. Marten Terpstra has joined Tony Bates on the PRIDE project full time and will help Tony to achieve the ambitious goals of PRIDE during the coming months. Marten's work at the NCC will be taken up by Geert Jan de Groot who joins us today. Geert Jan comes to us from Philips where he has supported various development projects by providing an excellent computing and communications infrastructure. He is a HAM, a qualified SUN field service engineer and an experienced system administrator. Some of you may have met him during the RIPE technical days where he helped us to show you IP over ISDN. Geert Jan will join Anne Lord and myself in providing the NCC's core services from today. I ask all of you to welcome Geert Jan and to help him get used to his new responsibilities quickly. The PRIDE and NCC staff work as one team. So it is quite possible that you might deal with Marten or Tony on NCC matters occasionally see Geert Jan or Anne involved in PRIDE activities. Regards Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC & PRIDE Project Manager