Draft rulings.
============================== CFJ 1890
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The Speaker CAN assign prerogatives for the upcoming month in
the seven days before the beginning of a month.
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Caller's Arguments:
Rule 2019 requires the Speaker to make assignments by using the
term SHALL (R2152). Question 1 comes down to whether SHALL empowers
the act to be performed by announcement or any other method, or
merely requires without empowering. The time limit is specified by
R1023(a) by "timely fashion".
The relevant parts of R2152:
4. CAN: Attempts to perform the described action are successful.
6. MUST, SHALL, REQUIRED, MANDATORY: Failing to perform the
described action violates the rule in question.
This game being Agora and not any variety of ParaNomic, it seems to
me that the use of SHALL and its MMI synonyms at a minimum enables
the ability to carry out the described action, subject as always to
other rules. It would be against the spirit of Agora to
simultaneously require and prohibit an action (though it would be in
the spirit of ParaNomic). I draft rule TRUE.
============================== CFJ 1891
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If the Speaker fails to assign prerogatives for the upcoming
month in the seven days before the beginning of a month, e CAN
assign prerogatives (for that month) after the month has begun.
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Caller's Arguments:
Rule 2019 requires the Speaker to make assignments by using the
term SHALL (R2152). Question 1 comes down to whether SHALL empowers
the act to be performed by announcement or any other method, or
merely requires without empowering. The time limit is specified by
R1023(a) by "timely fashion".
Question 2 (trivially FALSE if Question 1 is FALSE) is, if the
Speaker is empowered to so assign "in a timely fashion before", does
the SHALL continue to empower em after the time limit has expired?
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Since the SHALL necessarily empowers the subject to carry out an
action in question (see CFJ 1890), it does not in and of itself have
a time limit. The question at hand applies to a case where the SHALL
is paired with a time constraint.
I see no reason that the time constraint on SHALL in and of itself
causes the ability to expire when the time constraint expires, as the
time constraint is for the performance of the act. As one precedent,
Officer reports have historically been accepted even when published
late. As another precedent, CFJ decisions have been accepted past
their deadline, up to the point where the CFJ is assigned to another
player. I draft rule TRUE, but encourage that this issue be examined
for process improvements.
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Benjamin Schultz KE3OM
OscarMeyr
