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447 pages? That is like multiple semesters of course work. There should be some rule about how the rules can't be longer than that the drafter can recite them

447 pages? That is like multiple semesters of course work. There should be some rule about how the rules can't be longer than that the drafter can recite them by heart.

kibwen 3y ago
> There should be some rule about how the rules can't be longer than that the drafter can recite them by heart. I look forward to all laws being written in rhyming iambic pentameter.
numbsafari 3y ago
That was, like, two weeks of reading in one of my lit seminars.
CuriousCosmic 3y ago
I made a comment elsewhere in this thread on it but it's a proposal. That's how these go. There's a lot of information and analysis in it that's only relevant to some people but those people are going to care if it's not present. The actual changes are 10 pages long. The rest is all discussions, alternatives, potential impacts to different sectors, etc.
- rightbyte 3y ago
  Ok fair enough I guess.
joshdata 3y ago
U.S. law requires that agencies perform this public disclosure of their analysis so that interested parties in the general public have an opportunity to meaningfully weigh in before the proposed regulation becomes an actual regulation. It's an incredibly valuable aspect of accountability if you are someone affected by the regulation. A more recent law also required that CISA create a regulation on this particular subject. (It's explained in the regulation itself.) If you want simpler regulations, the issue isn't that we're missing a law to ensure regulations are simpler. The law requires that exactly this happen all the time: Your(?) legislators in Congress are constantly writing laws that direct agencies to do exactly this. Of course, if they didn't and regulations were simpler, all of the ambiguity would be decided by courts instead. The world is complicated with or without complicated regulations. So we can either have less-ambiguous but more wordy laws, or we can have more ambiguity, more court cases, and judges unpredictably deciding how to resolve the ambiguity.

447 pages? That is like multiple semesters of course work. There should be some rule about how the rules can't be longer than that the drafter can recite them by heart.

kibwen 3y ago

> There should be some rule about how the rules can't be longer than that the drafter can recite them by heart. I look forward to all laws being written in rhyming iambic pentameter.

numbsafari 3y ago

That was, like, two weeks of reading in one of my lit seminars.

CuriousCosmic 3y ago

I made a comment elsewhere in this thread on it but it's a proposal. That's how these go. There's a lot of information and analysis in it that's only relevant to some people but those people are going to care if it's not present. The actual changes are 10 pages long. The rest is all discussions, alternatives, potential impacts to different sectors, etc.

rightbyte 3y ago
Ok fair enough I guess.

joshdata 3y ago

U.S. law requires that agencies perform this public disclosure of their analysis so that interested parties in the general public have an opportunity to meaningfully weigh in before the proposed regulation becomes an actual regulation. It's an incredibly valuable aspect of accountability if you are someone affected by the regulation. A more recent law also required that CISA create a regulation on this particular subject. (It's explained in the regulation itself.) If you want simpler regulations, the issue isn't that we're missing a law to ensure regulations are simpler. The law requires that exactly this happen all the time: Your(?) legislators in Congress are constantly writing laws that direct agencies to do exactly this. Of course, if they didn't and regulations were simpler, all of the ambiguity would be decided by courts instead. The world is complicated with or without complicated regulations. So we can either have less-ambiguous but more wordy laws, or we can have more ambiguity, more court cases, and judges unpredictably deciding how to resolve the ambiguity.