[Taxacom] Linz International Zoologucal Nomenclature Workshop

[Doug Yanega]

On 4/6/14 5:43 PM, Michael A. Ivie wrote:
> Well Doug,
>
> This response sounds like a bit of a presumption of entitlement 
> issue.  It is clear that everyone is invited
You may have missed Alain's response, posted here, in which he stated 
"Dear Doug, Yes, we did invite personally several members of the 
Commission to the meeting". Further, I'm not sure what you mean by 
"presumption of entitlement" - if there was a public meeting to be held 
discussing Montana State University's insect collection, and future 
directions it should take, including criticisms of its standing 
policies, would you not feel that you or someone else who actually works 
there should be invited to such a meeting, to represent the viewpoint 
and interests of the institution being criticized? Do you consider 
having an opportunity to defend yourself in public to be a gratuitous 
"entitlement"?? It would seem equally odd if a meeting discussing the 
perceived problems with the ICZN had no representatives of the ICZN in 
attendance. I assure you, there was no communication among the 
Commission prior to Alain's posting of this announcement, to let us know 
that such a meeting was even being planned, let alone that any of us had 
been personally invited. It was a straightforward question, asked for a 
logical reason; mostly, *it was news to me*.
> It could be indicative of the problem that the rebutal you cite and 
> linked is only available to those with a Zootaxa subscription.  If the 
> ICZN wants to reach the community, perhaps an open access response 
> would make them seem more responsive?
>
As far as I knew, it WAS open-access, but I see that Frank has already 
commented on this.

Sincerely,

-- 
Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
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