1. Technical
a) to set up and to manage the mailing list, to subscribe
participants
b) to circulate the working rules
c) to circulate the writing rules in view of MT
d) to provide machine translations of the messages
e) to publish the important elements of the debate on the associated
Web site
2. Facilitation
a) to define the products and deadlines of the forum
b) to take up, rekindle, and refocus the discussion in order to
complete the products
c) to write summaries
d) to make sure that the working rules are followed
3. Coordination between the e-forum and communication by regular
mail / fax