I also have no doubt one could do a 1000 person remote meeting. That being said, I've tried to do remote attendence at meetings both where there is a small timezone offset and a large timezone offset. The small timezone offset "works" but in no way replaces face to face meetings. The large timezone offset only works if you have 1 or 2 working groups to want to attend. Face to face forces attendees to be mostly in sync with respect to the timezone. BA was a 10 hour shift for me but it was do able. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@xxxxxxx