On 10/16/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
What it means is that, as the discussion of proposed policies proceeds, nobody in it will have the opportunity for a cheap shot of making an "Argument from Authority" that "ArbCom said it; I believe it; end of argument", as has so often been the case for the last year.
There is nothing dishonorable in the Committee admitting that they're stuck, and remanding the situation for further discussion. Since the case ended up focusing on policy rather than individual behavior (i.e. edit warring citing various policies), there is probably no other solution that doesn't actually attempt to make policy.