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

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, at 11:12 [=GMT-0800], Roeland Meyer wrote:

> Is this like when, the Pope speaks ex cathedra?

Of course not. It will certainly not be wise to believe the NC in
order to ascertain the truth or to be saved.

-- 
Marc Schneiders

"In re tam iusta nulla est deliberatio."
(Acta SS. Mart. Scillitanorum [AD 202]) 
> 
> > -----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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