Re: [ifwp] Re: CLosing the process

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jim and all,

Jim Dixon wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Patrick O'Brien wrote:
>
> > Please,
> >
> > Excuse my frustration from afar,
> >
> > Can some appointed spokesperson for IFWP tell me three things,
>
> The IFWP as such has no appointed spokeperson.
>
> Neither does the IFWP steering committee.
>
> > 1.    Will this meeting take place?
>
> There are two complementary meetings.  One is being organized by the
> Berkman Center at Harvard.  It is closed.  A small number of people
> will be invited to hammer out a compromise that incorporates the
> consensus points from the various regional conferences.  This meeting
> will occur over the weekend of 12/13 September.

  Why is this meeting closed?  Whom authorized this CLOSED meeting?
Under what IFWP authority was this meeting determined?  Who voted on having
a CLOSED IFWP meeting?  Isn't the IFWP an open, transparent and fair process?
If this meeting is closed who are the principles organizing this closed meeting?
Are you aware that it would be easy to obtain a court injunction to force this
meeting
to be open to the public in that public resources are being discussed?

>
>
> The other meeting will be an open IFWP conference.  There has been no
> firm decision on the date of this meeting.  In my judgement it is
> most likely to be on Tuesday 15 September.  The steering committee
> should reach a firm decision on this in today's conference call.

  Well please keep us informed.

>
>
> > 2.    When will this meeting take place?
>
> See above.
>
> > 3.    Where will this meeting take place?
>
> The Berkman Center-sponsored meeting will be at Harvard. The other
> meeting will almost certainly be in the Boston area, probably in
> Cambridge (across the river from Boston), and possibly also at Harvard.

  Whom at the Berkman Center suggested or authorized a closed meeting dealingwith
public resources?  Names please.

>
>
> > Getting tickets from NZ at very short notice to a destination yet to be
> > decided, for a date, yet to be decided, is an exceptionally difficult task.
>
> Understood.
>
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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