Robert's Rules (Re: ADs who are also WG chairs)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On fredag, juli 04, 2003 08:17:20 -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
<pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:

>
> Step three - Roberts rules of order.
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serious question:

do you have an example of a version of Robert's rules of order that has 
successfully been applied to mailing lists?

RR has a number of concepts that are hard to apply to a mailing list - 
recognition of speakers by the chair, expulsion from the room of disorderly 
members, voting in real time on points of procedure, for instance. I'd be 
interested in hearing of examples of successful adaptations.

I've been involved in one or two other attempts to call on Robert's rules 
when mailing lists were part of the context, and they usually petered into 
nothing when people started following the pointers and actually *reading* 
the Robert's Rules books - there are just so many concepts that need 
adaption. It may be possible, may even be very useful - but it certainly 
isn't obvious.

RR has sometimes been described as "how to make decisions in an orderly 
fashion with participants who don't trust each other one bit". We might 
need that model at times.

                  Harald