This is why meetings should be minuted, so that people can see not only the
results, but the process by which the results were achieved.
> > Let's not forget also that the drafting team is composed of
> people with very
> > different beliefs/ideas, broadly representing the spectrum seen on the
> > lists. That will help ensure that no worthy idea will be
> ignored because it
> > conflicts with a particular ideology.
>
> There has been some disagreement with your assessment of the
> representativity of the drafting team. Perhaps you haven't been following
> the list. For your information, suggestions of mine that original
> organizers
> of
> DNSO.org not continue to dominate the drafting team as they have done so
> far, and be replaced by participants from the meetings or others, was
> rejected. Dr. Lisse, for his part, protested very energetically,
> and rightly
> so, I believe, about not only his removal from the drafting team but the
> re-chartering and reformation of it by the transition committee,
> which until
> now has not had the power to appoint drafting team members without the
> approval of the membership. I believe that fortunately Dr. Lisse has at
> least won his own point and been reinstated; but what about the
> remainder of
> the team, which will apparently now be picking and choosing among
> proposals
> to present in Washington and afterwards, with no criteria but there own
> opinions to go by? Upon what, if I may ask, do you base your
> assertion that
> they represent the broad spectrum of the lists, or even of the
> participants
> at the conferences?