RE: Consensus vs Voting (RE: [ga] DNSO General Assembly call to change seating rule)

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Is this like when, the Pope speaks ex cathedra?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret A. Fausett [mailto:baf@fausett.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 11:01 AM
> To: YJ Park; ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: Consensus vs Voting (RE: [ga] DNSO General 
> Assembly call to
> change seating rule)
> 
> 
> YJ Park <yjpark@myepark.com> wrote:
> > Measurable consensus in NC can be very difficult to fathom.
> 
> Consensus for the NC is actually defined in the ICANN bylaws 
> in way that can
> be objectively measured. Specifically, a NC consensus 
> recommendation to the
> Board on matters of policy is anything that has a 2/3 vote of the NC
> members. See, Bylaws, Article VI-B, Section 2(d):
> http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI-B
> 
> When the NC released it "press release" in September 
> counseling against
> pre-registration in speculative new TLDs, that was *not* a 
> consensus policy
> under the bylaws. In fact, from the NC minutes, it doesn't 
> appear that it
> was even put forward for a vote.
> 
> Since the NC "press release" did not actually call for any 
> Board action, it
> arguably did not need to meet the standards for "consensus" 
> set forth in the
> Bylaws. Nevertheless, for those less schooled in the details 
> of ICANN's
> bylaws, it was certainly confusing, and made more so by the 
> fact that ICANN
> carried the "press release" over to the main ICANN web site.
> 
> In the future, it would be helpful to the community if the NC 
> made a clear
> distinction between when it is acting in a formal consensus manner as
> contemplated by the bylaws and when it is doing something else.
> 
>         -- Bret
> 
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