2009/2/23 Alan Bawden <[email protected]>: > From: David Rush <[email protected]> > > 2009/2/22 Brian Harvey <[email protected]>: > >> (4) None of the Editors may be a member of the Steering Committee. > ... > > What on earth is the rationale for this rule? > > Conflict of interest. The SC could theoretically change the rules to > favor a particular editor. > > Don't jump to too many conclusions about the reasons for this. ... But > the notion of "conflict of interest" was never explicitly > discussed. The charter grew that way because it just felt reasonable to > us all at the time.
I should have stated explicitly that I was interpolating. But my answer arose immediately out of thinking about why the restriction could seem correct. > The new Steering Committee inherits the power to ammend the charter (which > the current Steering Committee were extremely cautious about exercising), > and so they can change things like this. They can even pull a full 1787 > and replace our Articles of Confereration with a brand new Constitution. And *that's* why I'm not too fussed about the restriction in the first place. I think that there are definitely need to be some adjustments coming... david rush -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
