1. Herbert Van de Sompel (with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce) started an initiative to work towards a Universal Preprint Service, via "alignment" of existing preprint services and promotion of the preprint concept. A key short run component of this system is the creation of at least one cross discipline user service. He has established contacts with the major initiatives. He will ensure the availability of static dumps from these initiatives to the parties of this agreement.

2. Thomas Krichel wishes to support that development through computational support funded by the WoPEc project. He is interested to test the ReDIF metadata format on data from a range of disciplines. He will coordinate and document the metadata collection work and fund activities 3 and 4.

3. An enhancement of the rr.pm software to read and control ReDIF will be produced by Ivan Kurmanov. This will allow multiple authorities (namespaces). A design on how this is to be done will be agreed between him and Thomas Krichel at a meeting on 20 June. The software will be available to all parties in the spirit of open source.

4. Using the funds of the last quarter of the Lavrentiev agreement (now suspended), Victor Lyapunov will ensure the conversion of datasets until 1 September. The conversion will be made to the RePEc authority initially until a first version of the multi-authority software is ready. A split of the dataset into namespaces will have to be agreed upon. In addition Victor will publish a configurable tool that aids the extraction of ReDIF from web pages.

5. Michael Nelson will pick up the converted data or conversion software from Victor and the rr.pm software from Ivan to produce a prototype multi-discipline user service.

6. Thomas Krichel, Michael Nelson and Herbert Van de Sompel agree to mention each other's names in all external communication regarding the activities that fall under the Ghent agreement.