ST-ATLAS infrastructure coordination

The ST division launched a collaboration programme with the LHC (experiments and machine) management, by appointing the so-called ST coordinators. The role of the coordinator is to smooth out the relationships amongst representatives of the infrastructure groups, not exclusively within the ST division. This role is nevertheless bound to change as the project unfolds into its different phases. For the time being though, the coordinator's task is to centralize all requests for information from, and provide support to, the collaboration. In the case of ATLAS, the first months of this collaboration have already given some good results, which will be reported in this and future papers. The present paper is to be understood as a progress report summarizing the main items which have been dealt with up to now.