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

[James Seng]

Remember the discussion of functional vs. ceremorial meeting? The 
Robert's rule of order is the latter.

If we taking this path, we might as well merge with JTC1.

-James Seng

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
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> --On fredag, juli 04, 2003 08:17:20 -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
> <pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:
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>> Step three - Roberts rules of order.
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> serious question:
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> do you have an example of a version of Robert's rules of order that has 
> successfully been applied to mailing lists?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>                  Harald
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