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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The draft, as it is, is okay by me. I thought it would have been posted. On another note, may I nominate Bill Drake?</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de><BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:44:00 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [governance] Caucus Statement: another proposal<BR><BR>
<DIV>William Drake wrote:<BR><BR>> Anyway, I think this and any other tweaks are probably moot, as a dialogue<BR>> among five or six people isn't a basis for caucus statement. <BR><BR>Just FYI: My recent silence does not imply I do not endorse the general <BR>effort and the direction of the statement - quite to the contrary. I just <BR>have to finish some other business before coming to Athens. I guess <BR>several others have the same problem. ;-)<BR><BR>So, whoever has time to work on this: Please go ahead with the statement <BR>and try to make it an agreed IGC statement by all means. Parminder's <BR>proposal sounds good to me. No opposition over a defined period of time <BR>implies consensus.<BR><BR>On the process: The "calling rough consensus" function of any coordinator <BR>is only needed if there are dissenting voices, right? That's why it's <BR>called "rough". If nobody objects, I find it hard to not move forward.<BR><BR>Best,
Ralf<BR></DIV></DIV></div><br></body></html>