Dear All, In April 2006, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation hosted a meeting - sponsored by Mellon, Microsoft, CNI, JISC, and DLF - to explore standards and protocols necessary for greater interoperability across repositories. Don Waters has just today posted the final report of this meeting at http://msc.mellon.org/Meetings/Interop/FinalReport . It is a relatively short document and I recommend it to any of you interested in cross-repository interoperability, and the digital library and scholarly communications benefits that can come from such large-scale connectivity. Best, David David Seaman Executive Director Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources 1755 Massachusetts Avenue NWSuite 500 Washington DC 20036, USA Tel: 202-939-4762 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.diglib.org