On 23 August 2011 19:22, Beau Brendler <beaubrendler@earthlink.net> wrote:
Olivier wrote:
"just to let you know that I mentioned it in AOB - but there was little support from Evan, Garth or Alan."
Really? Does the NA-RALO need to have a discussion with its >elected< representatives to ALAC about what bottom-up consensus means, and about the importance of listening to your constituency?
That's a needless cheap shot. The documentation from the August 8 NARALO meeting still lists the pre-registration statement as an action item rather than a closed and approved doc. Neither Gareth nor I are -- nor should we be arbiters of whether the pre-registration issue had reached closure. As a result, it was brought up as a "what's the state of this?" question for Gareth and me at today's ALAC meeting, and neither of us had an answer. Further, it was raised when the meeting was into AOB, more than half an hour overtime and into its third hour, and there was little patience from anyone after a gruelling debate over controversial NomCom appointments, JAS, Strategic Plan and other such stuff. So I make no apologies for an unwillingness to open a debate at that time about a previosuly-undiscussed issue about which I did not have any more substantive information than what was in Beau's letter (my so called "lack of support"). Nor did I personally think the pre-registration statement to be more important than the other priority items on the call, which *had* been placed on the core agenda. This is a stressful time for many in ALAC who are trying to advance some very serious issues, under awful deadlines, while horribly understaffed and dealing with summer vacation time taken by volunteers. If there is a desire to do so, the pre-registration issue can -- and probably should -- be introduced by mailing list to ALAC members so an issue can be raised and consensus can be reached -- on the regular agenda of the next meeting, if need be -- in a less stressful manner. I'm more than happy to discuss my choice of the priorities that I believed best served the region and the community at large, either at a NARALO meeting or elsewhere. - Evan