Dear friends, About two years ago it seemed to be a good idea to form a working group which would deal with subjects of the network information/user services area (NIDUS WG). Since then the working group met several times, but not on all RIPE meetings, only if we found some topics to discuss. At start-up we decided that we did not want to start concurrent activities to the other existing groups in this field. There were very few people coming to the WG sessions, probably because there were much more important tasks to do, like PRIDE, etc. I think, that the only useful thing this WG did was, that we kept an eye on the activitis of the other groups in this field, like Joyce's reports about the IETF User Services Area. If the RIPE community hasn't got any strong objection against it, I'll suggest to quit the NIDUS WG, as it is now. We could resereve some time during the plenary session for reports of other groups/activities in the network information/user services area though, as many of us found such reports quite useful and interesting. Best regards, Nandor Horvath