Re: [discuss] Notes - Names Council Meeting, San Jose - 062599

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>>	You don't need a supremely neutral party; just somebody who has a good
>> knowledge of Robert's Rules and is basically honest.  (Hell, I'll do it if
>> you can't come up with anyone better.)
> ...and let me just add my voice to stressing "who has a good knowledge of
> Robert's Rules."  And ther person is going to need to be assertive and 
> unafraid to talk down/shout down the members, in order to enforce the
> rules and thereby achieve some semblance of fairness.

keeping order is the role of the chair.  the partliamentarian is there to
advise the chair on what order is.

randy