The WG 2.1 members continue to hold A.P.Ershov's status quo with regard to the WG, but since he has not attended any meeting for a long time his presence at the next one (Netherlands, April 1985) were desirable for the sake of maintaining his membership.

Covering letter for following materials and these materials themselves; 1) informal minutes of the 31st WG meeting (Munich); 2) current address list of members and observers of the WG; 3) a formal letter of invitaton to the 32nd WG meeting (Catalina island, California); 4) preliminary information for the 32nd meeting. The author informs also on appointments in the WG and discusses some problems concerning the 32nd meeting.

The author is sorry that A.Ershov was not present at the Catalina WG 2.1 meeting and asks that Ershov consider attending some of the two next meetings: in Pont-a-Mousson (which has to be held just prior the Canterbury Working conference on System Programming Languages) and in Utrecht.

The Malvern meeting of WG 2.1 is announced, and problems of the future work of WG are discussed.

formally inviting to attend the 36th WG 2.1 Meeting (Malvern, September 1986).

Participants of the 31st WG 2.1 meeting highly appreciating A.P.Ershov's membership and noting that he could not attend WG meetings for some time would be pleased if he were able to attend one of future meetings - the 32nd or the 33rd.

to the 34th WG 2.1 meeting in Utrecht.

by the Chairman of the WG 2.1 addressed to the participants of the forthcoming 33nd meeting of the group. The letter discusses following issues: 1) resulta of the 32nd meeting; 2) preparation of the Working Conference on Program Specification and Transformation; 3) local arrangements for the 33th meeting; 4) WG observers; 5) technical content of the meeting.

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.

concerning the arrangements, the technical preparation for and the proposed content of the 34th WG 2.1 meeting.

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.

Covering letter for a report on activities of WG 2.1 since January 1982 and this report itself. (Doc. "Baden-4".)

to the copy of the minutes of the 29th Meeting of WG 2.1 and a copy of the current address list

(a short one and a detailed one) to the 33rd WG 2.1 meeting in Pont-a-Mousson.