>One question is, among the range of activities an IAB Chair does, what >makes IAOC participation sufficiently low priority to warrant handing it >to someone else? I'd look at it another way: is the IAOC sufficiently unlike the IAB chair's other activities that it would make sense to send someone with more experience or interest in it? While I have the greatest respect for the IAB chair, if someone else has more interest or experience in making budgets and hotel conference management and trademark license law, why not let them do it and report back to the IAB? R's, John