This committee met during the World Championships at Inverness last August. Here is what they were talking about ...

Summary from Technology Development Committee Meeting 4-6 August 1999 in Inverness, Scotland On Thursday, 5 August, TDC in cooperation with BOF's Technical Committee organised a successful open meeting. About 70 people attended. The meeting had a number of interesting and important presentations within the field of technology and orienteering.

Criteria for electronic punching systems (EPS) had been finalised and handed over to the ESC for implementation.

It was decided to survey the viewpoints of federations with relation to the timing systems issue. Should approval criteria be set up? What aspects of timing should be covered, etc?

Ian Watson, one of the project leaders of the Interface Standards Project, gave a presentation outlining the project's status. Proposals for syntax and for semantics exist. Feedback indicates that there is now an urgent need for the standards project to issue a first version of the standard.

TDC discussed at length the situation with regards to use of information technology at IOF events, and the lack of internet and telecommunications connectivity often seen at these events. TDC's role is to encourage the use of internet and web casting.

TDC decided to take on the task of setting up a proposal for guidelines for use of internet and tele-communications at IOF events.

(from the IOF web site www.orienteering.org)