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Date Posted: 10:51:40 08/02/02 Fri
Author: Jacqui
Subject: Re: Watchers: black, white or grey
In reply to: Robert 's message, "Re: Watchers: black, white or grey" on 07:54:50 08/02/02 Fri

>Another thing that's easy to overlook is that the
>watcher's
>council is old. Administrators playing politics isn't
>going
>to be a new problem, but the council has stuck to its
>mission for centuries. Somehow the council must have
>found
>a way to keep the politics under control, or it should
>have
>fallen apart centuries ago.

I agree with this, but I think the key problem from the administrators is in fact the age of the council. I don't think they look at the underlying reasons for some of the policies they enforce - just enforce them because that's 'the way it has always been done'. The reasons for the introduction of a policy in the 9th century may still be there, but are the means by which they address those reasons still relevent?

I think there is the old problem of tagging odds and ends on to existing regulations if there is something new that needs addressing rather than stripping things down to basics and addressing everything from scratch, (which may indeed mean keeping the original policy with an addition - but at least the reasons for it would be analysed and understood).

Jacqui

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