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Getty Press Release "1"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 93)
Wed Sep 30 17:48:14 1992
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:26:13 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM%ZODIAC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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This is not the first time that the Getty has arranged or announced a
conference on a significant topic with little or no lead time. The private
nature of the conference, though attended by apparently useful groups and
people, combined with the timing of the announcment (inviting "coverage" at
a press meeting to be held on the day after the message) transmits a sense
of noblesse oblige which several of the organizations involved, certainly
including the Getty, need to be careful not to project.
The position papers to be distributed sound interesting and we all look
forward to seeing them as announced in the release. It may be the case that
the discussion in the broader community stimulated by these papers might be of
interest to those at the meeting, but they will not have the opportunity to
take advantage of such discussion. The phrase in the release that
policy proposals will be considered for
adoption by the assembly" implies a decision-making mode of a more global
nature than I suspect is intended.
--Peter Graham, Rutgers University
