Re: SUO: RE: Motion to resolve the impasse
Phil,
The fundamental principle is that the SUO assembly as a whole
has the basic power to make decisions. When a question is left
to be resolved "at the chair level", then the chair might make
a suggestion, but the ultimate authority is up to the assembly.
> I'm concerned that it may not be appropriate for the SUO working group to
> vote on whether to accept the advice of the IEEE parliamentarian. Besides
> the recursive voting question I pointed out, there is the problem that if
> the outcome of such a vote were to be "no", then the SUO working group would
> be in the position of having itself formally decided to disregard the IEEE
> parliamentarian's advice, which could place all of the SUO working group's
> future decisions in jeopardy, outside the scope of IEEE, etc.
If you are concerned about those issues, then you should be even
more concerned that the chair made the decision unilaterally.
The power of the chair is subordinate to the SUO assembly.
Rather than explore all the possible ramifications 20 ply ahead
of the game, we can reach closure simply by taking a vote. If you
have some concerns about the wording of my motion, then let's
restate it to avoid recursion.
John Sowa