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Date:Mon Jan 7 10:51:28 1994 
Subject:PLUG and AISB 
From:Roger Evans 
Volume-ID:940107.01 

There have been a number of messages recently discussing (among other
things) the idea of associating PLUG conferences with AISB conferences.
These messages have been sent to a range of different mail aliases with
different implied levels of involvement in the discussion. As someone
with a foot in at least three relevant camps in this discussion, I find
it difficult to respond adequately to all these different audiences
without re-broadcasting messages that were perhaps deliberately more
narrowly targetted and so instigating a free-for-all discussion which is
inappropriate at this point. So this is a plea for a little discipline
in this discussion.

It seems to me there are two different activities going on (already).
One is the PLUG committee talking to its membership, finding out what
they think, the other is the PLUG committee talking to the AISB
committee, finding out what might be possible (rather than just
guessing...) and possibly making proposals. These are very separate
things and should remain so. In particular the PLUG/AISB communication
should be able to presuppose that the PLUG committee has an appropriate
mandate from its membership - it is not appropriate for the AISB
committee to get involved in issues of whether such a link-up would be
good FOR PLUG, or how it might affect PLUG's associations with other
bodies (although AISB might want to discuss privately whether it would
be good for AISB and how it might affect AISB's associations with other
bodies, of course...).

So PLEASE PLEASE can we have one process (via popforum or privately to
the plug committee as appropriate) sorting out the issue of the
desirability of associating with AISB, and a separate more private
negotiation between PLUG and AISB about details as appropriate.

Roger

PS: people who think we have this already probably haven't seen all the
    messages I've seen.