The nature of the open forum

The open forum at a CMWC event should take place in two parts. The first part, a longer discussion/debate meeting, should be scheduled before the actual racing portion of the event, while the second part, a shorter decision-making meeting, should be scheduled (with a time limit) after the events. This is in order to allow time to discuss thoroughly the topics on the agenda, and then to pause for a few days to reflect on the group discussion, discuss the issues amongst those at the CMWC, and take in any factors from the current event that might affect our positions before taking a decision.

An agenda for the open forum should be finalized several months prior to the event, so that it may be mailed out with the confirmation packets sent to prepaid registrants, and made available to the worldwide community to the best of the host city's ability. This is in order to provide competitors with the chance to think about the issues therein prior to the open forum, and also to discuss them with couriers not attending CMWC, so that opinions can be represented to their fullest.

The open forum should restrict its agenda topics to issues specifically affecting the CMWC event itself, and leave issues more general to messengering to other sorts of discussion which the host city may choose to facilitate, or which may occur more informally. This is in order to provide for a more organized and easy to facilitate open forum.