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Re: Recommendations by the ITO working group

Howard: Thanks for that quick response and valuable suggestions.
I'll see what's possible.

Cheers
Syd

PS: "Fliege"
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On 06/07/2005, at 3:46 PM, Howard Flack wrote:

> What Ho ITOWG's:
>
>> Nicola and I have been discussing what form the recommendations
>> from the working group should take in order to be of most use in
>> the planning and development of IT Online.
>
>   What is essential is to make sure that the general thrust of the 
> current state of the recommendations be presented cogently and 
> persuasively directly to the IUCr executive committee. The standard 
> round of interviews of commission and committee chair persons takes 
> place in Florence prior to the opening of the congress. If you have 
> been summoned to appear all will be fine as you can rely on your own 
> talents to do a really good job. If your presence has not be requested 
> then the problem is much more tricky for you because you will have to 
> get the working-group's recommendations over by way of an 
> intermediary, probably the general editor of IT. Moreover you need to 
> go along to a closed or open meeting of IT to present the working 
> groups recommendations to the general editor and editors of 
> International Tables. It seems to me that some of the latter are 
> rather resistent to any change so a very fine touch is required. In 
> that enterprise, I strongly recommend you to take Ulrich M�ller along 
> with you.
>
>   In short, it is my opinion that the 'form of the recommendations' 
> which will prove the most efficient and effective is direct vocal 
> personal contact with the EC and the CIT. I doubt that you really 
> required me to tell you that.
>
> H.
>
> PS. What is the word in German for a bow tie ? It's not in my 
> dictionnary.
>