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

[Bob Davis <bob.davis@netzero.net>]

Mr. Alvestrand and everyone,

  What is interesting is that several people that were registered voters
with the DNSO GA are now not listed.  I am one of those.  Should I
re-register?

Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> At 07:46 10/11/2000 -0500, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> >The fact of the matter is that the GA has not established any sort of
> >defined process for concluding that consensus has been reached.
>
> It has. That process is called voting - see
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-working-procedures.html
>
> The process chosen for voting takes some time to start, takes a week for
> the voting to run, and some work to do the tabulation afterwards. So we are
> looking at a delay of perhaps 2 weeks from the time a resolution is
> presented to the GA by the chair for action to the time the GA's consensus
> can be verified.
>
> Anything but voting (including my declaration of "rough consensus) is
> really a personal judgment. I am coming to the conclusion that I should not
> have said anything on behalf of the GA, and let the seating resolution die
> the death of irrelevance.
>
>               Harald
>
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