However, there is a matter of scientific impact, so that Council approval of the proposed action of the Trustees, when it is formulated more definitively, is to be sought. The EC had reviewed the state of the negotiations. The matter is noted here for the information of the Council. The Council had received an item of information concerning the policy of the NSF of automatically sending reviewers' reports to proposers for grants. This is in minute 2.1 of 14 April 1983.
Some people object to the policy.
The EC referred the question to the Committee on Science Policy, which was to discuss it at its meeting of January 1984. Currently, Professor Roger Howe objected to the procedure. By agreement with Professor Howe, a deleted version of his correspondence with the NSF over a particular case is attached for information. This resulted in two kinds of difficulties. First, there are non-members who supply the name of a member without asking permission.