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Agreement definition #26

Open rigelrozanski opened 5 years ago

rigelrozanski commented 5 years ago

@heyitsmerebecca REF #3

Agreement: “A statement which has been agreed upon by all members of an organization according to the consensus process. In the context of this repository agreements are considered to be binding and documented statements which other decisions/agreements can be built upon.”

In the “concept.md” file,

“Agreements are enforceable among those who've agreed upon them.”

It seems from the above that “all members of an organization” are included in the agreement binding, however, the statement “Agreements are enforceable among those who’ve agreed upon them” seems to conflict that. I can see four options:

Either there are “sub” agreements (sub to those which affect all members), which only those affected by it must agree to. Or “those who’ve agreed upon them”’refers to all members. Or there is an alternative option I have not considered. Or I am missing a piece of information. Either way, it think it should be clarified or a distinction made between different types/scale of agreements (on an organizational, top-level agreement or a departmental level one)

rigelrozanski commented 5 years ago

“Agreements are enforceable among those who've agreed upon them.”

Note this must be all members [AC - clarify]


Or there is an alternative option I have not considered.

There is - which is all members must always agree on a core baseline set of agreements, however decisions can be beforehand agreed upon to be delegated to be made to sub-groups within the organization, so the decision can be thought of as "agreed" upon by the entire group even if only the members within a sub-group have come to consensus on the issue. So even if everyone doesn't agree on a particular decision, that doesn't necessarily need to block that decision from going through, because all members have previously agreed upon the legitimacy of a particular sub-group to make that decision. Hence a decision can be thought up as ultimately agreed upon in spite of any immediate disagreements

[AC - Add above thoughts to concepts.md]