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Governance of the Belle experiment
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1.Members
  Physicists, engineers and graduate students who contribute 
  significantly to the Belle experiment are eligible to be members.
 
2.Organization
  We will have spokespersons, Institutional Board (IB) and Executive 
  Board (EB) within the collaboration.
  They can be made correspondent to the British or Japanese political
  system as follows.
      Collaborators          =  People
      Institutional Board    =  Parliament/the Diet
      Spokespersons          =  Prime Minister
      Executive Board        =  Cabinet
 
3.General group meetings
 3.1 As much as possible, decisions will be made at general group meetings.
     (How? vote? then majority? General concensus?)
     Important matters are discussed in EB or IB, and then proposed to a 
     general meeting. When serious objections or comments are raised there, 
     then matters are sent back to EB or IB.
 3.2 They are held several times a year.
 
4.Institutional Board(IB)
 4.1 IB consists of representatives from institutions.
     An IB meeting is held every time when a general meeting is held. 
 4.2 IB deals with organizational, management, and personal issues, 
     including admitting new collaborators, modifications to the group's 
     organization, initiating the spokespersons' selection process, etc.
 4.3 IB also functions as a ``B-factory users' organization''.
     It gathers complaints and/or suggestions to KEK.
     It asks KEK for improvements.
     (see IB-bylaw for detail)
 
5.Spokespersons
 5.1 We will have three spokespersons: one from KEK, one from Japanese 
     universities and one from outside Japan.
 5.2 Spokespersons are responsible for running the group, representing
     the group's interests in the Laboratory and with national funding
     agencies, and for allocating the available resources among the 
     different subgroups
 5.3 The term is for two years and is renewable.
     (When some of the spokespersons are replaced in the middle of their
      term the replacing spokespersons are to serve the remaining term.)
 5.4 Spokespersons will be selected according to the procedure yet to be 
     determined at the IB.
     (For the first time, an ad hoc committee to nominate spokespersons
      was set up by the steering committee. The ad hoc committee consisted
      of five from KEK, five from Japanese universities and five from outside
      Japan.)
 
6.Executive Board (EB)
  6.1 EB members consist of the three spokespersons and about ten others,
      where some are selected by the spokespersons and some by the 
      collaboration as a whole.
  6.2 EB advises the spokespersons on scientific and technical matters. 
  6.3 Number of members other than spokespersons is initially 13: 
      four from KEK, four from Japanese universities, and five from outside
      Japan.
  6.4 EB meetings are to be held every month or so.
  6.5 The term is for two years and is renewable.
     (see EB-bylaw for detail (will be  written by K.Abe))