I totally agree and sign together with Philipp Budka. One of the main problems in Internet research is to overcome the theoretical hype (or pessimism) and eventually to assess theoretical claims regarding their real-world relevance. To do that you certainly need to review (or even study) results from empirical and interdisciplinary research works. For example, how can we see (and forsee) the effectiveness of Internet and Web applications in urban management and governance? Can we do that based only on various theoretical and political assumptions regarding the technology's potentials? Certainly No. We need to look carefully and critically on why, how, from whom, and for what that happens. And if we're in a position to draw some conclusions from our work, we further need to compare and correlate these to other derived from different works that either use different methodologies or different case studies (geographically or by sector/ topic of interest). Under this view, the as free as possible access to Internet research through this very same tool (Internet) should be considered of particular importance by Internet researchers. I clearly suggest the free online publication of the AIR conferences' proceedings. Issues of privacy and copyright could be overcome by using special security configurations and devices available at any e-paper software (see online journals). Thanks Dr. Vassilys Fourkas Research Associate Spatial Development Research Unit (SDRU) Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Development School of Architecture PO BOX 491 Aristotle University of Thessalonica Thessalonica, 54006 Greece Tel: 0030 310 995584 Fax: 0030 310 995592 Email: vfourkas@estia.arch.auth.gr URL: http://estia.arch.auth.gr