ais523 wrote:
On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 18:59 -0500, secretsnail wrote:
ID: 9145
Title: Pragmatic quarters
Adoption Index: 2.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: Mischief
Amend Rule 2555 (Blots) by replacing this text:
At the beginning of each quarter, half (rounded down) of each
fugitive's blots are destroyed.
with this text:
Once a quarter, the Referee CAN and SHALL publish a Notice of
Clemency, upon which half (rounded down) of each fugitive's blots
are destroyed.
This doesn't actually provide a mechanism for the Referee to do so
(likewise with the other similar obligations in this proposal) – it
just states that it's possible. (In particular, it gives no indication
of what a Notice of Clemency is – just labelling a message as one
probably wouldn't be enough, because the rules don't state that a
message labelled as a Notice of Clemency actually *is* a Notice of
Clemency.) What's our precedent on how to deal with this sort of
obligation?
Partial precedent:
Rule 2651 (The Election Cycle), excerpt
Once per quarter, the ADoP CAN and SHALL publish a Notice of
Election specifying between 2-4 term-limited offices (if there
fewer than 2 term-limited offices, the ADoP MUST instead list all
of them). Such a notice initiates elections for the specified
offices. The ADoP SHOULD prioritize offices that have gone
longest since their last elections.
My take is, if the rules say something like "X CAN publish a Notice of
Y", then a message labeled "Notice of Y" *and published by X* is a
Notice of Y. (This breaks down if we're mistaken about who X is, but
generally some self-ratifying report papers over it in short order.)
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