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<font face="Candara">All,<br>
<br>
the Integration Panel recently discussed how best to use this list
for project-wide communication. This was partially a follow-up on
some of the discussions with GPs during the Singapore meeting. The
general idea is to to try to use as few lists as possible and to
use a publicly archived list for as much of the inter-panel and
project-wide communcations as possible - so as to increase
transparency of the project.<br>
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If the mail traffic should become so large, that it needs to be
managed, we can discuss alternate strategies when we know better
what will be needed.<br>
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There is one issue that's worth addressing up front and that has
to do with whether a posting formally captures a decision or act
by a Panel, or whether it's a more informal level of contribution
to the discussion. I suspect that the minority of contributions
will be "formal" statements, so a reasonable policy would be to
require that those are explicitly identified as such. The
presumption will then be that <i><b>all other</b> </i>postings
have not been reviewed and formally approved by the membership of
the respective panel.<br>
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For example, while this particular message, arose out of a
discussion during an IP phone meeting, it would be a stretch to
say that it represents a formal decision of or request by the
Integration Panel. Therefore, under the proposed convention I
would not identify it as such. From the contents, you may, of
course, infer that I believe that others share my position, so
that in my view that on the whole this is something more than just
a personal proposal.<br>
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This does leave a bit of a gray zone, but I think that we have to
deal with gray zones anyway everyday, so as long as the formal
decisions and actions of any panel are clearly and explicitly
identified, we escape having to disclaim every other
communication, which should simplify things enormously.<br>
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A./<br>
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