This document, which I sent to you on August 2, has just been published in Global and Planetary Change. the full reference is: Jacka, T.H and the ISMASS Committee, 2004, Recommendations for the collection and synthesis of Antarctic ice sheet mass balance data. In "Ice Sheets and Neotectonics", eds. James, T.S., Jacka, T.H., Morelli, A., and Dietrich, R., Special Issue of Global and Planetary Change, v. 42., Issues 1-4, 1-15