The session on architecture that took place on 20 May in Utrecht, the Netherlands, demonstrated that there is a large potential for future collaboration of current e-Framework activities and Dutch projects. The SURFshare project, presented by the Platform ICT and Research raised a lot of interest from Australia; Australia has done a lot of work in the areas of repositories and identifiers. A workshop organised by SURF was held in early June, which aimed to establish a global persistent identifier with European countries and Australia. New Zealand will also take part in trading knowledge and expertise with SURF; the focus here is mainly on similar work being done by SURFnet on groupware applications. Presentations of the meeting between the e-Framework and Dutch Higher Education are available.