I¹m almost sure that in none of the regions (including APNIC) the consensus is measured as a %.
In fact, I've my doubts about the "fairness" of the consensus when I compare, even in the same region, even the same co-chairs, how different policies are "evaluated" for having reached consensus or not. I know we should not "count" votes, but sometimes I'm feeling that it will be the best way to go. Regards, Jordi De: McTim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Responder a: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:49:31 +0300 Para: AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List <[email protected]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Asunto: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] About the policy BOF Hi Vincent, On 5/8/07, Vincent Ngundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree with you on all of your (elided) points above > > (b) I also think we should come up with a more explicit way of > measuring consensus at the open public policy meetings. Agree > This is > clearly important and is not well addressed in the current PDP. > Should we measure consensus as a percentage, say 75%, of the total > number of members who vote in favour of a certain policy proposal? > Some registries, like APNIC, use a percentage to measure consensus > and I think this would be a nice idea. I wasn't aware that APNIC did this, perhaps it's becasue culturally it seems they have the same issue we do (non-participation by all but a handful of people). I would like to see at least training on consensus finding for the WG chairs, IIRC they did this in the RIPE region few years back. I'm not sure that voting and setting a hard number (percentage) is the way to go, but I'm willing to keep an open mind on it. -- Cheers, McTim $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net <http://whois.afrinic.net> mctim ********************************************** The IPv6 Portal: http://www.ipv6tf.org Bye 6Bone. Hi, IPv6 ! http://www.ipv6day.org This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited. _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
