Hi,
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:05:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Marcus> Correct. I would like to see the proposal revived, with the
>> Wold it not have been better to talk first, and shoot
>> afterwards? At the moment, there is no provision for reviving
>> proposals that have been killed by formal objections.
>>
>> I am not sure it would be wise in the long term to create such
>> a provision anyway.
Anthony> Erm. In another post you say that the policy update proposal
Anthony> is just a guideline and doesn't have the weight of
Anthony> policy. Here you're saying that it's Just Not Possible to do
Anthony> anything not given in the guidelines. This doesn't seem to
Anthony> make sense.
No. I said that under the guidelines, there has been no
provision to reopen proposals that were rejected under the same
guidelines. People are not really constrained to follow the
guidelines.
Anthony> I'd also like to add that "calling for a hold" on a proposal
Anthony> and "objecting" to a proposal seem like *very* different
Anthony> things to me. And at the very least, it seems that
Anthony> objections should be able to be withdrawn when their shown
Anthony> to be unfounded.
Then, if enough people agree, we should so amend the
guidelines. All I am saying is that currently, the guidelines do not
mention reopening the proposals.
Anthony> Are you willing to reopen the proposal, or would you rather
Anthony> someone else open a new one on the same topic?
I would rather not reopen the proposal, since caesar's wife
.... Indeed, I would think that propsal can't be reopened unless
some of the objections are withdrawn.
manoj
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