XBRL International Call for Participation – International Public Sector Working Group

30 April 2006

This is a call for participation in an International Public Sector Working Group to deal with issues relating to the use of XBRL in the Public Sector. The following individuals have requested this Working Group to be formed and are the three Entitled Persons  required in order to do so by the XBRL Technical Working Group Processes.

Donald Geiger - U.S. Department of the Treasury, USA - WG Organiser
Robert Walters - Office of the Comptroller General, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada
Michal Piechocki - BR-AG Inc., Poland

More information including a Draft Charter and instructions on how to join will be found at http://www.xbrl.org/IPSWGCall/.

During the Call for Participation, a mailing list, INT-PS-I, has been created for those who may be interested in joining to discuss the charter of the WG and its operating procedures. To join this mailing list, please send an email request to groups@xbrl.org. This list will be open for a maximum of 90 days from the date of this notice until either there are sufficient members signed up to formally charter the WG or the 90 days have elapsed without sufficient interest being declared. For Intellectual Property reasons, no technical content is to be discussed on the mailing list. There will be a number of conference calls organised during the Call for Participation. These will be announced on the INT-PS-I mailing list and elsewhere.

Announced by:

Hugh Wallis

Standards Development – XBRL International

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