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<p class="MsoNormal">I previously agreed with Wayne that an all-day VWG meeting in Herndon, VA on Tuesday, March 6 is a good idea – but we will have to push other WG meetings to later, maybe Wednesday morning.
<b><u>Does anyone object to this plan?<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the question of attendance (in person or by phone) by Interested Parties at the special VWG meeting – I have pasted in the relevant part of Bylaw 3.2 below. If you had asked me what I thought it meant, I would have said “IPs can only
come to the full Forum meetings at the invitation of the Chair, but they can come to Working Group meetings (teleconferences and face-to-face meetings) without an invitation from the Chair – it’s at their option.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That’s what I thought sub (a) meant by “becoming involved” in Working Groups, whereas I believed sub (c) only applies to participation in “Forum Teleconferences and Forum Meetings” – which I thought meant the meetings of the full Forum
itself. As I recall, we didn’t want the full Forum meetings to grow to 100 people or more, perhaps with many more Interested Parties in attendance than CAs and browsers – that seemed unmanageable from a logistics standpoint. Hence the need for a little gatekeeping
and specific invitations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the language from the Bylaws:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none">Interested Parties may participate in Forum activities in the following ways:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none">(a) By <u>becoming involved in Working Groups</u>,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none">(b) By posting to the Public Mail List, and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none">(c) By <u>participating</u> in those portions of
<u>Forum Teleconferences and Forum Meetings</u> to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none">which they are invited by the Forum Chair relating to their areas of special expertise or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">the subject of their Working Group participation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In any case, I will happily “invite” any Interested Party who wants to be involved in the VWG meeting on March 6, if necessary.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or would it be better if we permanently adopt my interpretation above – that no invitation from the Chair is needed for Interested Parties to attend WG meetings at their own option?<o:p></o:p></p>
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