If no rule says it's an essential parameter, it isn't an essential parameter. There's no reason to read that into the quorum rule. R107 states that the initiation must include "any additional information defined by the rules as essential parameters", I see no such definition here.
-Aris On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus <p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think quorum is an essential parameter, given the SHALL requirement > associated with it. > > On 11/05/2017 08:52 PM, Alexis Hunt wrote: >> On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 at 20:50 Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >> <p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com >> <mailto:p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Sorry about this. CoE: Quorum was not specified on the first Agoran >> Decision, therefore neither decision was initiated. >> >> I wish I had noticed this earlier, but I was starting to count the >> votes >> and went to check quorum and saw that it was missing. Unfortunately, I >> think this means that you can never intiate this decision because you >> CAN only do so in a timely fashion. >> >> >> I don't think that's true. Nothing says that an initiation is invalid >> without a quorum. The rules are explicit that an incorrect quorum >> invalidates a decision, but even without that, rule 879 is power 2 and >> can't override a valid initiation at power 3 I think. > > -- > ---- > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > >
