<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Jeremy,</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2010, at 1:08 PM, William Drake wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><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></span></blockquote><br></div><div>It can happen if no one gets any agreement of anything. However, we are be able to notice it, because it will happen in an open meeting. I personally agree with the propose solution (at least in this case), and see how it goes.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Katitza</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>