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Registration No. 333-96061
Rule No. 424(b)(3)
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT No. 2
(To Prospectus Supplement No. 1
dated June 30, 2000 and to Prospectus
dated February 24, 2000)
[LOGO OF HOLDERS/SM/ TELECOM]
1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts
Internet Architecture HOLDRS/SM/ Trust
This prospectus supplement amends and supplements information contained in
the prospectus dated February 24, 2000 relating to the sale of up to
1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by Internet Architecture HOLDRS Trust.
The depositary trust agreement entered into between Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as the initial depositor, and The Bank of New
York, as trustee, has been amended as of November 22, 2000. The agreement has
been amended to revise the rules related to distributions of securities from
the Internet Architecture HOLDRS Trust.
The depositary trust agreement has been amended to provide the following:
. if a company included in the Internet Architecture HOLDRS Trust
distributes securities, the distributed securities will not be
distributed from the Internet Architecture HOLDRS Trust, unless either
the distributed securities are not listed for trading on a U.S. national
securities exchange or through Nasdaq NMS or the distributed securities
have a Standard & Poor's sector classification that is different from
the Standard & Poor's sector classifications represented in the Internet
Architecture HOLDRS Trust at the time of the distribution, and
. if the securities of a company included in the Internet Architecture
HOLDRS Trust are no longer outstanding, as a result of a merger,
consolidation, corporate combination or other event, any securities
received in exchange for those securities will not be distributed from
the Internet Architecture HOLDRS Trust, unless either the securities
received in exchange are not listed for trading on a U.S. national
securities exchange or through Nasdaq NMS or the securities received in
exchange have a Standard & Poor's sector classification that is
different from the Standard & Poor's sector classifications represented
in the Internet Architecture HOLDRS Trust at the time of the exchange.
Standard & Poor's Corporation is an independent source of market information
that, among other things, classifies the securities of public companies into
various sector classifications based on its own criteria. There are 11 Standard
& Poor's sector classifications and each class of publicly traded securities of
a company are given only one sector classification. As of the date of this
prospectus supplement, the securities included in the Internet Architecture
HOLDRS Trust are represented in the Technology sector. The Standard & Poor's
sector classifications of the securities included in the Internet Architecture
HOLDRS Trust may change over time if the companies that issued these securities
change their focus of operations or if Standard & Poor's alters the criteria it
uses to determine sector classifications, or both.
It is anticipated, as a result of Standard & Poor's broadly defined sector
classifications, that most distributions or exchanges of securities will not
result in the distribution of securities from the Internet Architecture HOLDRS
Trust. The trustee will review the publicly available information that
identifies the Standard & Poor's sector classifications of securities to
determine whether securities received as a result of a distribution by an
underlying issuer or in exchange of securities included in the Internet
Architecture HOLDRS Trust will be distributed from the Internet Architecture
HOLDRS Trust to you.
The date of this prospectus supplement is November 28, 2000.
