All,

Attached is the draft BES charter.  Please comment in the next several days so we can get this off to the GFSG.

A few other administrative things.

1) We are planning a face-to-face in conjunction with the OGSA F2F in London at the end of May.  The OGSA F2F is May 23-24. We will have the BES F2F the day before – on Sunday the 22.

2) The proposed weekly teleconference time is 10 AM Eastern (US) on Thursdays (NOT including today.)  It is not an ideal time for the folks in Asia. Midnight in Japan, and 10 PM in Thailand. We are working on finding a conference call number and will post in advance. Any ideas are appreciated.

Andrew