Carcharoth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Charles Matthews > <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip> > > >> What works is this: >> > > <snip some good points> > > Want to focus on one. > > >> - people show respect for the policy by "staying on the fairway", not >> gaming it at the margins; >> > > This only works if the policy is written sufficiently well to allow > for the existence of a broad fairway as opposed to a narrow one. There > will always be those who want to narrow the fairway and constrain > people into a set definition. If the margins are brought in too close, > it becomes too easy to accuse people of gaming the margins. If the > fairway is too broad, then too much slips through. Even if people > agree on where the central point should be, what should be done when > people disagree on how broad the fairway should be? > Dispute resolution. The existence of areas where reasonable people might disagree doesn't vitiate policies, it just means that there is room for concrete discussion with the aim of clarification.
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