On 21/03/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In the future, such a process should be made more
formalized I think (as
> we get bigger and bigger, it is harder and harder to just chat with
> everyone and then make it so), and quite likely the ArbCom (who, after
> all, ultimately make decisions about what "counts" as policy through
> their enforcement of it) should be the ones certifying.
So you're suggesting that ArbCom have a role in
policy making similar
to the role Bureaucrats have in RfAs? They come along after all the
discussion and determine if a consensus exists? I like that idea, it's
very easy to implement and would solve quite a lot of the confusion
that almost always surrounds changes in policy.
The AC has done this for a while anyway - "Principles" are the AC
trying to sensibly state what they think the rules are.
Now, the question is, how do we decide about changing
the policy about
changing policy? This might be a good example of a time when it's best
for a GodKing to step in...
To suggest things cluefully, more or less strongly ;-)
- d.