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

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

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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