<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Hi Jeremy,</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:</span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:55:12 +0000, Jeanette Hofmann <<a href="mailto:jeanette@wzb.eu">jeanette@wzb.eu</a>><br>wrote:<br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I argued that the MAG or the secretariat should not decide on this<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">matter without consulting the various stakeholder groups. This<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">afternoon, Markus and I discussed the options and we came up with a<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">third solution. Markus just sent the following message to the MAG list<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">and asked me to forward it to the caucus list as well. I expect the<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">caucus will be happy about the proposed solution?<br></span></font></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I would<br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br>Wearing my cynical hat, this may just mean that any of the decisions that<br>would otherwise have been made by the MAG in May will be made by the<br>Secretariat instead, rather than submitting them to the anarchy of the open<br>consultation meeting. </span></font></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">How would that work? Markus' message to the MAG suggests they meet a last time next month and set the agenda for the Vilnius meeting, and the program then would be fleshed out in two open planning meetings in May and June. What decisions could the secretariat go off and make on its own without the two open planning meetings noticing, and why would it try to?</span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">But wearing my optimistic hat, I hope that this will<br>not be the case and that this move will simply mean a more open planning<br>process in May.</span></font></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Bon chapeau...</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Cheers,</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Bill</span></font></span></div></div></body></html>