I thought of that. You can tell me whether my preperations are likely to be sufficient.
-Aris On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 5:50 PM Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > Before reading, and with advanced appreciaton for the work, after > last year I'm not voting for ANY change in the regulations rule before > the 25th Birthday Tournament is well and dusted. > > Hopefully over-caution on my part but forgive that I hope. > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: > > I've long opposed any efforts to entirely scrap regulations, because I > > think they're a good system which has the potential to lead to > > interesting rulemaking. However, it's clear that this system, like so > > many others that I have designed, is far more complicated than it > > needs to be. > > > > This proposal tears the regulation system down to the bear minimum > > required to support the birthday tournament, which is the only place > > regulations are being used properly in the ruleset at the moment. I've > > kept the system as a general framework, so that hopefully it can be > > used to do what in the past was done through systems like officers' > > budgets. In the meantime, it is now so unobtrusive and minimal that > > you will hardly notice it. I've tossed the ACORN and Regkeepor, and > > most of the other complicated provisions, and turned regulations into > > minimalistic rule extensions. > > > > Thanks to everyone who gave me constructive criticism. I deserved it, > > and hope this and my other simplification and rationalization > > proposals address your concerns. > > > > -Aris > > > > --- > > Title: Deregulation Act v1 > > Adoption index: 3.0 > > Author: Aris > > Co-authors: G. > > > > Repeal Rule 2517, "Conditionals and Extricability". > > Repeal Rule 2494, "The Regkeepor". > > > > Amend Rule 2493, "Regulations", to read in full: > > > > A regulation is an textual entity defined as such by this rule, > > and under the authority of an officer, known as its Promulgator. > > A regulation must be authorized by a rule (its parent rule) in > > order to exist. It has only the effect that rule explicitly > > gives it. > > > > A regulation CAN be enacted, amended, and repealed as specified > > by its parent rule. By default, a Promulgator can enact or amend > > a regulation with 2 Agoran Consent and repeal a regulation by > > announcement. Regulations are tracked in their Promulgator's > > weekly report. > > > > > > Change the power of Rule 2493 to 3.0. > > > > Amend Rule 2565, "Preserved Land", by changing the text > > > > "The preservation switch CAN be set in a regulation promulgated > > by the Cartographor without 2 objections" > > > > to read > > > > "The preservation switch CAN be set by the Cartographor without > > 2 objections". > > > > For the avoidance of doubt, all regulations existing under the old system > > continue to so under the new system, and if they would not otherwise do > so, > > new regulations are created to replace them. > > > >
