DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5508-5512

2008-05-07 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Zefram wrote: >> 5512 D1 3Goethe Mandate II > AGAINST Anything particularly evil about this? I thought it was just a useful shorthand to replace "SHALL and CAN by announcement". -Goethe

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5508-5512

2008-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Ivan Hope wrote: >> 5508 O1 1Murphy Economic overview > FORx4, though it really shouldn't make the Accountor list assets > defined by private contracts. Point, but (1) that can easily be fixed later, (2) the recordkeepor of such assets is required by R2166 to report on them, and (3) t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5508-5512

2008-05-07 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: >Anything particularly evil about this? Not directly so, but it would encourage bad drafting. We already have a fair bit of trouble with people not thinking through the CAN and the SHALL as distinct items, and we hardly ever want them to have the same extent. I don't think ther

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5508-5512

2008-05-07 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Zefram wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Anything particularly evil about this? > > Not directly so, but it would encourage bad drafting. We already have a > fair bit of trouble with people not thinking through the CAN and the SHALL > as distinct items, and we hardly ever want th