Robert's Rules (Re: ADs who are also WG chairs)
Hallam-Baker, Phillip
pbaker at verisign.com
Fri Jul 4 11:09:25 CEST 2003
> > That was a moderated forum using an adapted form of
> Recher's dialectic,
> > however the moderation was not essential in that case.
>
> do you have a reference? I'm not familiar with Recher's dialectic...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087395372X/qid=1057338215/sr=1
-29/ref=sr_1_29/102-1205297-4835306?v=glance&s=books
Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge
by Nicholas. Rescher
It is unfortunately out of print.
The open meeting is described in:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/open-meeting/abstract.html
Actually reading up on the paper again I realise that actually we did not
apply Rescher's dialectic in open-meeting, but we did use it in Web
Interactive Talk at CERN.
The open-meeting had a richer set of labels for the dialogue and was
structured so as to build consensus rather than expose controversy.
> > What we do in OASIS in most cases is to run with an
> abreviated version of
> > the rules except when there is an actual controversy and
> someone wants to
> > make sure process is followed.
>
> that's been my impression with most places that claim to
> follow RR too -
> that unless there's a conflict, things jut run in an ad-hoc
> fashion, but
> that once there is conflict, one has the ruleset to fall back
> on to ensure
> orderly and clear decision-making.
>
> And I actually think that's an eminently sensible way to run
> meetings, and
> wish we knew how to make mailing lists do that.
I think it is a soluble problem, though not one that is likely soluble in
the context of a few months.
Phill
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