[clas_members] comment paper for opt-in

[Mac Mestayer]

Hello Ken and collaboration;

I have read the comment paper.  I have a few suggestions for changes,
but first I want to address a general point to the whole collaboration.

I think that we should comment on the arXiv paper as a collaboration and
not as individuals.  Therefore, I think we should follow collaboration
rules and have the comment paper vetted by an ad-hoc committee, followed
by membership review and opt-in or out.  This process needn't take long.

 				my thoughts, Mac

"mestayer at jlab.org", (757)-269-7252

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Hicks, Kenneth wrote:

> Dear CLAS Collaboration,
>
> Attached is a PDF file with a draft of a comment on the paper that was circulated by M. Amaryan et al., see the preprint at:
> http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.3325
> For some history, this is the pentaquark analysis presented earlier this year at a CLAS Collaboration meeting, where a vote
> was taken about whether to approve this as a CLAS paper. (The vote failed.)
>
> At present, the attached paper is signed by the CLAS Coordinating committee members, plus Elton Smith (chair of the analysis
> review committee for the Amaryan et al. analysis).  The intent is to publish the comment paper on the arXiv website.
>
> If you would like to join this paper as a co-author, please send email directly to me (hicks at jlab.org<mailto:hicks at jlab.org>).  (Do NOT reply to this
> email unless you have a comment to go to the collaboration as a whole.)  If you want to suggest revisions to this paper,
> send your comments to hicks at jlab.org<mailto:hicks at jlab.org>.
>
> The deadline to join the paper is Friday, October 28.
>
> Best regards,
> Ken Hicks
>
>