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With some regrets I
am voting Disapprove on this motion. If there was a way to table an email
motion or to postpone it to the next plenary I would attempt that
instead.
In principle, I see
a value to holding some plenary meetings outside North America even if that
entails a manageable amount of extra expense and effort.
However, our
membership should be consulted generally before we make this decision.
As far as I can recall, we have allowed for such discussion before making this
type of change in the past. While there was some discussion among the exec and
in some of the working groups about the visa problem last meeting, the motion
has only been raised through Exec reflector discussion and the change has not
been presented at all in some Working Groups.
We are talking about
a change for 4 years in the future. This isn't an
emergency. Preliminary investigations of practicality of the change can
begin without the motion. Therefore, the earliest we should consider this motion
is at the end of the March Plenary when we will have had a chance for discussion
in the working groups. It would be a bad precedent to use an email ballot to
decide this before an opportunity for Working Group
discussion.
Ideally, I also
would prefer to find out if we have some indication of willingness of
organizations to act as co-hosts (at least for logistics) before we commit to
this action.
Regards,
Pat
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