On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 23:43 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Alexis Hunt <aler...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In my work on the rules history, I discovered that around 1999, it was > > possible to adopt proposals outside the normal distribution process, and > > this led to two proposals being adopted without classic ID numbers: one with > > ID number "01-003" and another without an ID number at all. Probably more > > were as well, but these are the only two in the modern ruleset's history. > > > > Do you think you could skip two ID numbers so that we could assign these > > regular ID numbers by proposal? If anyone has better ideas, especially for > > the one that never got an ID number and is only identified by name, I'm > > interested. I mostly want to clean this up for cleanliness but I guess it > > isn't the end of the world if we leaves things as is; it just makes it > > harder to keep track of them historically. > > 7957-7958 will work (I'll try not to forget). Isn't this the kind of > situation where ratification without objection is appropriate?
I'd rather use an ID number of similar magnitude to those which were in general use of the time. If there are no free numbers back then (and there may well not be), you'd need to use fractions. -- ais523
