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

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

As I recall, the 2/3 vote of the NC is required to validate a consensus
recommendation of a working group.  In other words, at least 2/3 of the NC
has to be convenced that a consensus position was reached involving the
applicable population.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Bret A. Fausett [mailto:baf@fausett.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 2:01 PM
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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