[ga] primary objectives of the General Assembly mailing list

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:43 a.m. 26/07/2007, Debbie Garside wrote:
>  Hi Danny
>
> I know we haven't adopted them yet but the draft Rules for Participation
> state the following:
>
> ----
>
> The primary objectives of the General Assembly mailing list are as follows:
>
> - to ascertain and represent the consensual views of the ordinary citizen as
> a collective as pertaining to the business of the GNSO and ICANN
>
> ----

Good thing that this Korean issue comes up now to throw the proposed new 
mission statement of the GA in the spotlight.
Frankly, I'm a bit worried about any mechanism that purports "to ascertain 
and represent the consensual views of the ordinary citizen as
a collective" if it isn't based on voting and counting.

Or was that what you meant, Debbie?



-joop-