Re: Automation of constitutional procedures

1998-04-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> This is precisely the aspect I disagree with. There are a number of > problems with this kind of thing. > > Firstly, with an automated system developers' abilities to do things > will be dependent on the bot's interpretation of what is allowed - the > bot becomes the governor of the procedure r

Automation of constitutional procedures

1998-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
James A.Treacy writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6)"): > [Ian:] > > I disapprove of the idea of automation. > > > > s4.2(5): > > Proposals, seconds, amendments, calls for votes and other formal > > actions are made by announcement on a public-readable electronic > >