This used to be true, but was changed in your absence. Rule 106 now states "Except insofar as the action performed by a proposal happen one after another, rather than simultaneously, a proposal's effect is instantaneous. A proposal can neither delay nor extend its own effect. Once a propsal finishes taking effect, its power is set to 0."
-Aris On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:38 AM Gaelan Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC proposals are instruments with power, and that power is never > revoked. Unfortunately, I don’t think a temporary rule would do the > trick—unless we ratified the history of the PAoaM rules (something I’d > rather not do), every future FLR might be technically “incorrect” unless we > figured out the ruleset actually looked like after PAoaM got enacted. The > rule allowing the FLR to be “wrong” would need to stick around at least > until we got rid of PAoaM, which would be annoying. I guess having a > long-lived proposal effect isn’t actually any better than having a rule, > but at least we don’t need to keep a record of it? I’m not sure about the > best course of action here. > > Gaelan > > > On Mar 18, 2018, at 12:40 AM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 00:09 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > >> Okay, everyone, here's a revised patch. Please point out any other > >> issues you see. All changes more significant than a typo fix have > >> been moved to a new section for reader's convenience . Gaelan, some > >> version of this will be in this week's distribution, so you can > >> withdraw your original. > > [snip] > >> The Rulekeepor MAY list historical annotations for changes made by > >> the following portion of this proposal (until the text “END CLEANUP”) > >> however e wishes, including incorrectly or not at all. > > > > I'm not convinced this actually works legally. You may need to create a > > temporary rule for the purpose. > > > > -- > > ais523 > >
