[registrars] Procedural issues with PDP ballot

["Marcus Faure" <faure@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I am usually not very picky about procedural questions, but the
current ballot 134 on the gTLD PDP and the non-existing ballot on the
amendment proposal seem pretty odd to me.

First, we had a discussion on the consensus paper. At some point the
changes I proposed were considered to be an unfriendly amendment and
turned into a ballot. The ballot text was a quote from my last email on
that subject whose wording was suitable for discussion but certainly not
suitable for a ballot. Additionally, the amendment vote took place
while the vote on the consensus paper was running.

Both ballots failed due to lack of votes. The consensus ballot vote
was restarted. I do not know who decided to restart it. The amendment
ballot was not restarted. Again, it is not clear to me who made that
decision. 

You may or may not argue that my amendment was a minority
view and that the few voters we saw were mostly not in favour.  
However, we will not reach certainty with the approach that is 
currently used. This does not match the constituency standards that I
am used to.

I would appreciate an excom comment on this matter.


Yours,
Marcus