On Thursday 07 February 2008 22:47, Steve Bennett wrote:
Agreed. There is little consensus over how policy
operates. Various
viewpoints seem to include:
1. Policy is whatever most people are doing. Policy pages simply describe
this.
This is correct.
2. Policy is whatever most people think everyone
should be doing.
Policy pages describe that.
3. Policy is prescriptive, and policy pages capture the current set of
rules. They should only be changed through consensus.
These are incorrect.
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Kurt Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com>