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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Author: Gérard Petit (IERS Conventions Center)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><o:p> </o:p></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><o:p> </o:p></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>You are invited to fill the survey on the IERS Conventions at</span></font><span lang=EN-US> <a href="http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/Conventions_Survey.html">http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/Conventions_Survey.html</a> . See the full announcement in the IERS message No. 185 (text below).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>NOTE: There was a bug in the server, that prevented the first users to fill the survey. This bug has now been corrected. We apologize for the inconvenience.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>IERS Message No. 185 February 15, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Questionnaire for IERS Conventions users<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>The IERS Conventions (2010) were finalized in December 2010 and announced in IERS Message No. 179. The document can be accessed electronically at http://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Publications/TechnicalNotes/tn36.html and the printed version will be available soon as IERS Technical Note 36.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>The Conventions 2010 web pages at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>http://tai.bipm.org/iers/conv2010/conv2010.html and http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>are now frozen to the present version of the IERS Conventions. Comments and proposals for the future evolution of the Conventions are invited through the survey available at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <a href="http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/Conventions_Survey.html">http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/Conventions_Survey.html</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Comments may also be sent directly to the principal scientists of the IERS Conventions Gerard Petit (gpetit@bipm.org) and Brian Luzum (brian.luzum@usno.navy.mil).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Conventions users are invited to respond by 14 March 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Gérard Petit and Brian Luzum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>IERS Conventions Center<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><o:p> </o:p></font></p><p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Calibri><o:p> </o:p></font></p></div></body></html>