Re: schedule of action Re[2]: [ga] Voting options for the Verisign deal

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:36:42 +1300, you wrote:

>At 11:55 16/03/01 -0500, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>>         I'd suggest a slightly different tack.  It's fairly obvious, from 
>>the postings in the straw poll to date, that a consensus process in the GA 
>>on this issue would generate one of two possible positions:   [1] "As 
>>between the status quo contract and the proposed revision, it is the 
>>consensus of the GA that the status quo contract is preferable"; or [2] "As 
>>between the status quo contract and the proposed revision, the GA cannot 
>>reach consensus as to which is preferable."  
>
>
>Excellent , oh grizzled veteran of  wg-consensus.  :-)
>Unless  there are further improvements, this is the text I will put up in
>the Booth.

I think it would look very bad politically if one does not have an
option for voting in favour of the proposed changes.  I would phrase
it as thus:

(a) I support the status quo agreement over the proposed revisions
(b) I support the proposed revisions over the status quo agreement
(c) I have no preference for one over the other

I would then have a second question, being

Do you support a 60 day extension to the May 18 Registrar divestiture
date for Verisign under the existing contract, in order that
amendments to the proposed new contract can be considered by ICANN and
the DNSO?

(a) Yes I support a 60 day extension
(b) No I oppose a 60 day extension
(c) I have no preference

>I know that Booth result will not be official, but I think it is valuable
>that we have
>1. a real-time view on the voting
>2. automatic tallying on the Web
>3. a comment space where voters can summarize their reasoning, making it
>easy for anyone to present the combined summary to the NC.
>4. speed of implementation.

I think in this situation the booth can be useful and support it being
used, while noting it is unofficial and will not be the final GA
position.  

DPF
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