Colette, many thanks for your comment.
Please just allow a my short comment:

you write: " would potentially deprive the other International Committees of
their young members"
This is real in the mind of who see the young group as a threat for other
committee.
But it is not true, Young (or "young adult") can have the free to choose to
be a member (voting or not voting) of this committee (when and if will be
create inside ICOM) and of other Committees.
Will be a challenge for other committee to be sure that their young members
don't escape or leave their committee.

There is any real need to don't choose to be a member of one, two or more
committees (I don't remember if there is a limit)? Any member can decide if
they want to have decision power (vote) in the committee he/she thing is the
more near to their work.

Must to be clear that no-one have interest to catch members from other
committee, this not a game where who have more members win the game.
Is a common challenge in the interest of ICOM, Museums and colleagues.

Other committee don't be worry, no-one want to leave it any "power".

I hope the situation is now clear definitively.

Mario 



On 26-08-2005 16:54, "Colette Dufresne Tassé"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Mario,
> 
> To Patrick's opinion, I would like to add that this new international
> committee would potentially deprive the other International Committees of
> their young members.  This, I think would be a very sad reprecaution.
> 
> In all this business of young people, one should remember that until very
> recently, enven graduates students in museum studies were not allowed
> membership!  So with the change in ICOM membership rules, we could expect to
> see many more young people participating to conferences and other
> activities.  
> 
> C. Dufresne-Tassé,
> President CECA
> 
> 
> Le 25/08/05 06:57, « P Boylan » <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
> 
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mario Bucolo wrote:
>> 
>> +++++ [CLIP] +++++
>> 
>>> Last week I meet, informally, in Paris the ICOM General Secretary and we
>>> talk about this idea. He was happy about this initiative and he want to look
>>> again to the proposal after a better definition about who will join the
>>> group, the group goals and strategic plan to achieve the goals.
>>> He was very clear that the creation of a new International Committees inside
>>> ICOM it will be difficult (also regarding burocracy) and with long times
>>> (about Vienna 2007 general assembly).
>> 
>> =================
>> 
>> Mario:
>> 
>> Please remember that if your suggested Group is eventually constituted as
>> an official ICOM International Committee any "younger" ICOM member joining
>> it would not be allowed to be a full ("voting") member in any other
>> International Committee, such as the International Committee for their own
>> academic or professional specialisation (ICME, Nat Hist, CECA, ICMS or
>> whatever). (This is clear under the Statutes and Rules of ICOM, which
>> allow full membership in only one International Committee at a time.)
>> 
>> I am sure that nobody - least of all the younger members - would want to
>> cut themselves off from perhaps more senior professional colleagues in
>> their own specialisation in this way, so some other structure would be
>> needed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Patrick Boylan
>> 
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