Because of difficulties and hasards encountered with electronic financial transactions (see details below), ISAP will for time being collect dues only by mail post of fax.  

Please, go to the Printable Form for renewal of Membership, print it, complete it and mail or fax it as indicated.

Thank you !

ISAP is not frightened at electronic transactions per se.  However, those can only be conducted if a reasonable level of security is achieved.  This is not easy to obtain and still more to maintain.  Commercial providers may offer highly secured sites (the technology of which must continuously match the progresses made by the hackers !) but at a cost which bears no relation with the amount of cash flow ISAP membership renewal may generate (so that most of the income would eventually be consumed by fees...).  The ISAP Web site is actually run by a University service at no cost to ISAP, but this has the disadvantage that security cannot be entirely and continuously garanteed 8think about the holiday period, for example).  Thus, ISAP does not wish to create hazards for its member just because of such a small transaction as membership renewal (again, no relation between risk and benefit !).  Moreover, it was found that several sites of Hospital- or Industry-based ISAP members do not allow conducting secured transactions through INTERNET (specifically, these sites disable, for security purposes, some of the input/output accesses (TCP ports) necessary for conducting secured transactions or simply delay accesses through their firewall, making the transaction impossible in reasonable delay).    Thus, many ISAP members will actually be unable to crenew their membership, and to pay their dues, on INTERNET anyway unless doing it from outside of their Institutions.  Until that situation changes, membership renewal by older techniques appear more sensible even if somewhat old-fashioned.