Summary of the Fourth ECHONET Consortium Forum On February 21 (Mon.) 2000, the Fourth ECHONET Consortium Forum was held at Pastoral Hall in Tokyo's Minato-ku district. About 190 individuals from 61 member companies participated and enjoyed active exchange of opinions and information's. This Forum was mainly concentrated on an explanation of ECHONET Specification Version 1.0.

Following opening remarks by Chairman Reiji Sano, the Forum proceeded as follows:

1.Overseas investigation report in USA 2.Explanation of ECHONET Specification Version 1.0 3.Explanation of "Handling of Intellectual Property Rights Issues for the ECHONET Specifications" 4.Future activity plan of ECHONET CONSORTIUM.