RE: [ga] primary objectives of the General Assembly mailing list

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Danny and all,

  Yes, I posted the same concern over two weeks ago now
using different terms.  Glad you noticed Joops concern, which
is well founded and we all here have had experiance with
this sort of co-opting in the past.  Seems it is again 
a concern which is beginning to worry folks of principal.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 26, 2007 7:46 AM
>To: debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ga] primary objectives of the General Assembly mailing list
>
>Joop has put forward a very reasonable concern.
>
>The power of the Chair to determine rough consensus
>can easily be abused (as is the case at the moment
>within the GNSO's WHOIS WG where the BC Chair Philip
>Shepard is declaring "agreement" on language where no
>such agreement exists -- and we've seen this happen
>before when BC members have chaired other working
>groups such as the earlier DNSO Review WG).
>
>With that said, I think we're making a mistake by
>becoming infatuated with the notion of attaining and
>representing a consensus view.  If this body will ever
>get to the point of issuing documents to the Board, it
>will be more important to record and transmit all
>views and the rationale for such views (as this body
>is, by definition, not a constituency that has the
>obligation to endeavor to represent a rough
>consensus).
>
>As such, I would change the wording to read "to
>ascertain and transmit the views of the membership".
>
>Please note that as some list participants are
>articulating the views of special-interest communities
>(this is a cross-constituency platform), the output of
>this body cannot necessarily be viewed as the "views
>of the ordinary citizen".  
>
>
>Joop wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
Regards,
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