Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the good words. Yes, I would be able to get to Montreal by train. I know many of the good hotels and restaurants, maybe even some that Alan doesn't know :-).

In fact, only two people from NARALO have been approved and they must be new since don't know them.

I may still make it there due to an invitation to participate at NASIG (thanks Glenn!). But it seems regrettable that the committee concluded that one of the co-chairs of ATLAS 1 (and indeed one of the creators and advocates of the ATLAS concept itself) would not be of value at ATLAS 3. I wonder who else who may have been of value to one of ALAC's most critical events -- ever -- has been left behind because of some dumb regulation.

- Evan