Re: DNSO.ORG Meeting proposal on Jan.23(for the last time)

Michael Sondow (msondow@iciiu.org)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:09:44 -0500


Dr Eberhard W Lisse a écrit:

> > I understood that the mandate was simply for the drafting team to
> > collate all the new consensuses from Monterret, post for comments,
> > and then take a vote.
>
> That is exactly what I mean. Ah, the native speaker :-)-O
>
> But that is not what we are doing, are we?

Okay, now that we've cleared that up, maybe we can straghten out this
multiple draft stuff.

>From what I understand, the Monterrey drafting team has finished a final
draft of the Monterrey consensus. Then, they have made a MTY/INTA merged
draft, which is not yet finished, but presumably will soon be posted in a
more or less final form for discussion.

The status of that merged draft is unclear to me and, I believe, to the
participants, if they even know about it, which seems doubtful. Is it just
an alternative proposal? Is it the draft offered by the leadership as the
best DNSO.org application proposal?

Finally, there is, I believe, a new drafting team that will presumably
present a third draft proposal made up of the Monterrey draft, the merged
MTY/INTA draft, and all the comments received and collated up until now.

This is my understanding of the present situation, Eberhard. But it would be
useful, I think, if people working on these three projects could comment on
this outline, clear up what is not clear (like the confusing status of the
MTY/INTA merged draft), and reaffirm, if it's still true, that the
participants will be given the opportunity to dicuss, debate, and choose
between all three (if that's the case). Because, as Eberhard says, the
participants may want to simply reject the merged document and the recent
comments, and confirm the Monterrey draft.

I know that Lynn posted her summaries about all this (which you may have
missed, Eberhard), but they weren't as clear as they could be. So, could we
get it straight, drafting teams and leadership?

How's that, Eberhard?