Thanks Alan for pointing this out. Since I was not able to participate in the last conf call due to technical reason, I may have missed the focus. In any case, you are right that we have not finalized the Rules of Procedure. I share thought of your sketicism, making decisions at the conference call, but I think given the situation we need to make every effort to clean up the mess and focus on our own work including the conference call. izumi 2007/9/8, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>:

Izumi, you have now focused on the truly bizarre part. On our LAST conference call (which is a true ALAC meeting, despite not being in person) we decided to do two things.

1. Finalize our rules of procedure including election procedures and vote on them, and then 2. Proceed with the election (we had already deferred the election already because we did not yet have formal election procedures).

For reasons that remain unclear, we completely ignored item 1. The rules were not cleaned up and they still omitted terms that we had informally decided that were important. There was no vote. But we proceeded to have an election despite the absence of formal rules and process.

What makes you think that any decision in the next conference call will have any greater chances of being adhered to?

Alan (clearly very frustrated)

At 07/09/2007 01:52 PM, Izumi AIZU wrote:

...

... I still think the overall situation is quite bizzare. But in any case let's decided at the conference call. ...

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