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Other participants, such as Julio Herrera of the National University of Mexico, pointed out that there had actually been two earlier efforts to set up international organizations of DPF researchers.In each case, the effort had essentially been reduced to a method of raising money for a single group.It was also pointed out that a concrete project was needed to have a good chance of raising funds.
In response to these earlier problems, Herrera proposed to set up a Pan American DPF Network which would exchange information and ideas, and perhaps collaborate on joint research projects . Eric Lerner of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (and Focus Fusion Society) seconded this approach and further proposed that the network set up an exchange of data, so that experimental data could be widely sheared among the network participants.