We are optimistic about your business! That's right, optimistic! For many of you, it's a word you may have been reluctant to use over the past two years and rightly so. But we think it's time to put it back in the vocabulary.

One of the perks of being a partner at AMS is that we have an opportunity to meet technology industry leaders. Our clients' board members and committee members are the movers and shakers in technology companies. Over the past two years, we've experienced the heart-wrenching reality of too much e-mail that begins, "I'm sad to report that my company has eliminated my position..." from these industry leaders. At AMS, we've also been affected by the downturn. Fortunately, we are beginning to hear a different message from our friends in the industry. Companies are moving out of mere survival mode and shifting to the innovation and growth mode that makes the technology industry such an exciting one. After all, engineers don't just stop coming up with new ideas in a down economy! Phones don't get bigger. Computer chips don't get slower. Quite the opposite. There is a host of new wired and wireless technologies in development that are sure to excite consumers.

So what are we doing at AMS to get ready for this renewed focus on innovation? We've rolled out our Association Resources Online (ARO) web tool set. ARO provides a comprehensive infrastructure for forum communications and standards development. We are currently in the process of moving our clients on to ARO and so far, the feedback has been terrific. If you haven't heard about ARO, please ask your executive director about it. We'd be happy to give you a demonstration!

We have also expanded our AMS Event Services capabilities. At SUPERCOMM 2003, AMS Event Services managed a very special event for Samsung featuring entertainer Jeff Foxworthy at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Even if your plans don't include having a celebrity host, AMS Event Services is equipped to make ensure you have everything you need for a successful event - from determining the best location to negotiating discount hotel rooms to obtaining a wireless network.

We look forward to a good 2003 with you and a downright great 2004 for technology. Yep, we're optimistic about your business and we hope you are too.

Sincerely yours,

Kirsten Machi
Karen Moreland
Lisa Winkler

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DSL Forum

Since 1994, DSL Forum has been doing all it can to empower service providers and consumers to embrace DSL technology. So many of the technical hurdles are gone, due largely to the Forum's efforts, and emerging markets are coming on line quickly. As announced at SUPERCOMM, we have now reached 41.3 million users around the world, and first quarter was the largest quarterly growth, adding 5.5 million in just three months. Network providers around the world are expanding their networks to make the benefits of DSL available to many more customers...
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Gaming Standards Association

The Gaming Standards Association has just celebrated its 5-year anniversary! They marked this important milestone with a large annual meeting, and honored the companies that have supported the organization since its inception...
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http://www.mplsforum.org

The MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance held a very successful interoperability event at this year's SUPERCOMM; the test results document can be downloaded at http://www.mplsforum.org/events/industry.shtml.  Also in June, the Alliance administered an industry survey that revealed a strong push towards multi-service technology. In direct response to the survey results, the Alliance Technical Committee has now made service inter-working one of its greatest work priorities...
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Multiservice Switching Forum

Byung-Sun Lee from ETRI and Dr. Hongbeom Jeon from Korea Telecom were appointed to the MSF Board of Directors in July. The MSF BoD looks forward to working with these key players in the Asian telecommunications industry...
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Network Processing Forum

The NPF continues to gain momentum in the development of standards for network processing hardware, software, and benchmarking. Four new interoperability agreements were completed in the software and benchmarking areas. In April, NPF co-sponsored a daylong educational track at N+I in Las Vegas...
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Optical Internetworking Forum

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) held its second interoperability demonstration of the year at SUPERCOMM 2003. Fourteen member companies demonstrated four specifications developed by the OIF Physical and Link Layer working group, which included SPI4, SFI4, Tunable Lasers and Common Electrical Interface (CEI)...
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Service Creation Community

The Service Creation Community continues to build support for its vision and mission to rapidly build and deliver revenue-generating applications, content and network services to business and residential consumers, enabling the service provider to achieve a faster return on investment...
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ANTITRUST RELIEF FOR STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS PROGRESSES IN CONGRESS
by Mike McNeely, Gray Cary

Federal legislation that would greatly diminish the antitrust risk that standards development organizations (SDOs) face is making encouraging progress through Congress. On June 10, 2003, the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate H.R. 1086, the Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2003...
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