<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; font-size: medium; ">I will be there, arriving on the weekend, but we may need to ask<br>senior MAG members here whether it is possible to designate someone<br>else in their absence. </span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div>By "senior" do you mean "current"? Or do you see some sort of hierarchy here? In any event, I'd hope they would want CS to be represented, rather than that "their" slots be kept empty.</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; font-size: medium; ">Please note that Natasha Primo resigned from the MAG in 2010. Not sure<br>why this has not yet been recorded.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div>Now that you mention it, didn't Jeanette also say she didn't want to be involved anymore? She can correct me…<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; font-size: medium; "><br>Valeria will not be able to attend, unfortunately.<br><br>I am not sure about Graciela.. but when we last talk it was also not<br>going to be possible for her. But she can confirm.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>So that would be 3 or 8 slots empty. If Jeanette and YJ don't come it's 5 of 8 empty. Unless I'm misremembering, only Fouad's said yes here, although Qusai, and Katitza usually make it….</div><div><br></div><div>Clearly something has to be done if CS is to be properly represented in the discussion. I would think the easiest path would be to ask the chair to let observers talk. But in the event he regards that as too much of a free for all, alternates could be an alternative. Either way, would it makes sense for the IGC to send Chengetai a message saying CS will not be fully represented and asking him to pass to the chair our suggestion of these two options? Or is it better to spring it on him Wednesday morning and hope for an instant affirmative reaction?</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></body></html>