A.Ershov understands that his present activity directed to support and standardization of Algol is not sufficient for an active WG 2.1 member. But taking into account an actual process of restructing the Soviet Academy's activity towards IFIP, he kindly asks to preserve his status quo for a while.

Very regretfully A.Ershov must resign his membership in the IFIP 2.1 Working Group because of his heavy involvement in school informatics. He expresses his feelings as to many years of common activities and wishes to everybody in the Group a coherent and productive work.