1. ISO Liaison Report Web Access to DICOM Persistent Objects Emmanuel Cordonnier Hidenori Shinoda Taipei, April, 2003

2. Meetings for WADO T-con on Dec. 11 Reviewed the draft standard ver. 1.5. Emmanuel updated it to ver.1.6. Face-to-face meeting was held on January 17 th in San Antonio We reviewed the draft standard ver. 1.6, line-by-line. After the meeting, Emmanuel updated it to ver.1.7. We agreed that future issues of the draft standard should have two front pages – one for publication by DICOM and the other for publication by ISO. We discussed the work plan and agreed that the document would be presented to WG6 at June meeting.

4. Meetings for WADO to be continued T-con was held on February 18 th. Dave Harvey reported on his implementation base on the draft standard ver.1.7. He suggested the desirability of including the presentation state series UID as a necessary parameter. This would be listed as an open issue. The issue on controlling MIME type was raised by Emmanuel. Koos Rommelse and Larry Tarbox offered to assign someone of their companies who would consider the issue. Cor Loef, Don Singley, and Larry Tarbox offered voluntary work of test implementation and evaluation of the draft standard by their companies. After the T-con, Emmanuel updated the draft standard to ver. 1.8.

5. Additional news Secretariat of TC215 is taken over by HIMSS after ASTM resigned. Ms. Joyce Sensmeier is a contact person there. She will attend the Oslo meeting. US Tag decided Dr. Yun-Sik Kwak of Korea as a candidate of the next chairperson of the TC215.