Good afternoon, 

A Retail Market Qualification Testing Pre-Orientation meeting will be
held on Thursday, February 7 from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon.  The location of
the meeting is the Austin Hilton Hotel (see attached link for
information -
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=JCAZMEFNNDVEHJ
31AOQMHZQ?ctyhocn=AUSAHHF).

The meeting will be hosted by ERCOT and conducted by the ITPTA. It is
strongly recommended that new market participants that intend to
participate in the V1.4F2 flight of testing, attend this meeting.  This
includes any Market Participant that has not participated in previous
Retail Market testing, or a current Market Participant who wishes to be
certified with new trading partners. 
?    New CRs entering the Market or Muni-Coops - opting in under version
1.4
?    CRs entering new territories
?    TDSPs

The meeting will be primarily focused on Market Testing Requirements for
the next flight of testing currently scheduled to start February 28,
2002.  For a complete schedule - please review this link -
http://stage.ercot.com/FlightCalendar.asp.

We encourage Market Participants to send at least one representative
from their business organization AND at least one representative from
their technical organization.


We will familiarize you with the following:
Overview of Retail Market Qualification Testing Process
Connectivity and Standards Requirements for New Market Participants,
including GISB, FTP, and TX SET.
Flight v1.4F2 testing Plan, including Timeline
TDSP Territory Requirements
Basic Questions and Answers

Please RSVP to Karen Bergman (kbergman@ercot.com) with name, company
name and number of attendees.  The RSVP is due by Monday, Feb. 4th.

Thank you,
Karen Bergman
Senior Client Services Representative
512-248-3171
kbergman@ercot.com


In addition, this information will be posted to the ERCOT website, under
Texas Retail Testing (http://www.ercot.com/Participants/ITPTA.htm)

This email has been sent to the following lists, I apologize if you
received this notice multiple times.

All CR registered with ERCOT
All CR registered with PUCT
1 2002 RMS and others
1 2002 RMS vote
1 2002 WMS and others
1 2002 WMS vote
1 Standard Electronic Transactions
1 Texas Test Plan Team
1 Texas Data Transport WG
Muni / Coop distribution (same used for 1/30/02 workshop notification)