On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, omd wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: > >> I change my nickname to 'The Robot'. > >> > >> -coppro > > > > See CFJ 1520. > > In this case, the entity with the name "The Robot" will be coppro *at > the time of the enaction of the rule*. Also: > > A document referring to an entity by name refers to the entity > that had that name when the document first came to include that > reference, even if the entity's name has since changed.
Well, that's slightly more interesting, but the Proposal was a document that predated coppro's name change, so there's a case to be made that the Proposal's referent transfers to the Rules along with the actual language. -G.
