A round table meeting in Sigtuna (Sweden) in May 1997 discussed DAISY file format issues. A suggestion was made to change the file format to another format that is a de facto industry standard that can cooperate with the HTML format.
After such a decision Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, RFB&D, joined the DAISY Consortium as the tenth member. Other recent members are Australia New Zealand Blindness Agencies, The Danish National Library for the Blind, DBB, and Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons, JSRD (who shares membership with The Japanese Association of Libraries for the Blind).
Eleven associate members have emerged from different parts of the world, for example Colombia, Hong Kong and South Africa. All inhabited continents are now represented in the DAISY Consortium.
In August 1997 George Kerscher was elected manager for The DAISY Consortium, and in October an Executive Committee was elected (Chris Day, Kjell Hansson, Hiroshi Kawamura and Lino Rios Mejias).