Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes: > I have no problem acknowledging that we haven't been able to implement > the existing GR, but I don't see the utility of voting to remove the > possibility of ever implementing it.
I would prefer removing the possibility of ever implementing it without another vote. We can always vote again if someone comes up with a workable scheme. The possibility of declassification affects discussion, causes a lot of people to add signatures saying to never declassify their messages, and keeps coming up as people fret about it. This is all wasted energy and worry given that there is no realistic prospect that the declassification will happen. Your proposal is an improvement, but it still leaves a lot of uncertainty. Since there are no plans to actually do anything about declassification, and since there seems to be widespread agreement that the method for declassification in the previous GR, while well-intentioned, is unimplementable in practice, let's just remove the whole thing and require another vote if anyone later comes up with a good idea. It simplifies matters. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
