<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Parminder<br>
<br><div><div>On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:21 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; 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-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">In either scenario, I would think Adam's solution is a sensible way to get this done promptly and focus the noncom's effort on what really needs doing.<br></blockquote><br style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; 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-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; 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-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">I do however find it rather odd that an existing IGC nominated MAG member should insist that either the matter of recertifying not be taken up at all, or that noncom simple issues a blanket endorsement without at all going into the merit of the case, that too without appending any disclaimer :).</span></blockquote></div><br><div>And I find it rather odd that you would make this claim when a) in the very next sentence of my message I refer to discussions we are having in the MAG; b) in another message sent to you and the list seven minutes later I ask you what you thought was controversial about our informal MAG meeting in Baku and note that we on the MAG have sort of deferred to Izumi's reporting but could do something else if people wanted; and c) the composition of the MAG CS contingent has been discussed in the thread and is hardly a secret. I also find it ironic given the high standards of disclosure demonstrated when you were telling the IGC to support the Indian government's CIRP proposal without mentioning your role in it, and so on. :-) </div><div><br></div><div>Games aside, I remain curious about your insistence the nomcom spend time on an extra procedure that the Secretariat has made clear is unnecessary, particularly when the discussion here was about the tight time frame and urgent need to complete the process. What purpose would it serve? I don't really care much either way and would of course roll with whatever IGC members have consensus on, but it seems like silly bureaucracy to me. [Disclaimer: I am on the MAG, nominated by IGC and APC]</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>