Triadic,
That is not the way I see it. The only "face to face" meetings will be day-long seminars, twice a year. There will be no "around the table with experts" technical discussion, as used to occur at RAPAC meetings.
Otherwise, the ONLY interaction will be via the AVSEF website, which of course allows the powers that be/proponents of a change to simply ignore any suggestion or counter view. You can't get away with that at a RAPAC meeting; you can when you are hiding behind a keyboard.
I'm sorry to say it but...RAPAC is dead.