Fred Piazza will represent an important sector of Cooperative Extension on this national initiative. He is being asked to serve on the eXtension Information Technology (IT) Advisory Committee. Some of the initial work of the committee will be evaluating the prototype framework, forming workgroups to further enhance the core technologies and developing the specifications for a hosting request for proposals. In addition, the IT Advisory Committee will review and write specifications for further development of the following eXtension applications: ask an expert, frequently asked questions, event calendars, institutional branding and RSS news aggregation.