Re: [ga] Consensus... Definition?

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanna Lane [mailto:jo-uk@rcn.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:52
> 
> Do you think that as part of bottom-up ICANN consensus
> development, that the NC and/or Constituencies and/or the GA should consider
> involving non-members, such as public interest organizations, assimilating
> and deliberating on their reports prior to making policy recommendations? If
> so, which part of the DNSO is best qualified to undertake this task?
> Also, do you think that the DNSO should develop and implement a policy for
> outreach to attract new participants into the bottom-up ICANN consensus
> development process for reasons of reducing the limitations of the currently
> small subset of participants? If so, how can we tackle this without funding?

on 8/16/01 11:57 AM, Gomes, Chuck at cgomes@verisign.com wrote:
> Yes, I do think that the DNSO should reach out to nonmembers as
> part of the consensus process.  The more stakeholders who are represented in
> a consensus process the more valid the consensus will be.  And I think it is
> accurate to conclude that the DNSO does not have adequate involvement by
> many stakeholders.  At the same time those unrepresented stakeholders may be
> impacted by the policy being considered.  I think that the consensus
> development process should include steps such as attempting to identify key
> stakeholders and then trying to involve any unrepresented stakeholders in
> the process.  If they are unresponsive, the efforts can be documented along
> with their unresponsiveness.  Then the NC, in its role of managing the
> consensus process and in its responsibility to determine whether a consensus
> has been reached, would be able to see that efforts were made to involve all
> stakeholders.  That in my opinion makes the consensus process stronger.


Chuck,

Not only the NC, also the Board. Thank you for making this post. Let's have
more or these, then we can define Outreach as part of the consensus
development process.

Regards,
Joanna

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