root wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This section of R1728 does not use the phrase "by announcement", so >>> it is not defined by the second quoted paragraph of R478 (which >>> restricts itself to rule-defined actions that CAN be performed), but >>> by the first quoted paragraph. Overriding that paragraph would >>> require taking precedence over R478 and/or the (R754-backed) >>> natural-language terms used by R478, neither of which is the case. >> It doesn't need to. Announcing something is an action in and of itself. > > Additionally, R478 defines how things are announced, not whether they > CAN be announced, so it does not conflict with R2125's CANNOT.
Debatable, especially since "announcing something" is conceptually closer to external reality, compared to "performing a rule-defined action by announcement". Interpreting a rule as requiring external reality to be legally overruled should be done more conservatively.
