Re: One semi-substantive

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

I think the dangers outweight the pros. I go for "no, let it stand as is"

Eduardo


Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote:
> 
> I have always hated the 15 days part of:
> 
>    Persons intending to participate in the first meeting
>    must register to attend *no later than 15 days prior to* the
>    event by notifying the person named as chair of the new TC of
>    their intention to attend the meeting.
> 
> Yes, if there are 100s scrambling to get in, you need a way to cut them
> off.  But what if there aren't hundreds? (Aside question: what if there
> are, has a chair any way to limit this to less than 20, 30, 60, 200?
> Should the chair have any such limiting authority?)
> 
> Would it be possible to give the chair discretion to let others in.
> 
> Scenario:
> You only have 4 people signed up and then, the day before you are
> to meet, 5 great folks call you, saying "wow, I just
> noticed" or "I let time slip away", to whom you have to say no.
> 
> I REALIZE THAT THERE IS THE DANGER that the Chair will say "yes" to
> her friends and those of persuasion similar to her own, and it would
> be nice to guard against this.  BUT, I can see far more instances
> where someone is on vacation, comes back, realizes that just 12 days
> are left, and that's too late.
> 
> The intent of this was to protect the chair.  To give him/her a
>  notion of how many folks were coming to the meeting. etc.
>  No discretion means no possibility of collusion, chair-bias,
> or the perception of chair bias on the part of biased people looking
> at an honest chair.  The chair just points to the rules and says
> "sorry", it's a rule.
> 
> But I can also see this one being a real pain in the butt for
> a chair and binding them in ways they really don't like.
> 
> Is there a compromise position possible?  Based on numbers?
> 15 days if more than xxx people have already signed up?
> 
> Is there any other compromise?
> 
> (I will take no for an answer, quite easily.)
> 
> --Debbie
> 
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