Ellen and all,
These are excellent questions that were ask at the DC meeting. I shall
forward them to our members for their votes and post the results
by end of day tomorrow.
Ellen Rony wrote:
> Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>
> >It was mentioned several times by the moderator, and so it happened in the
> >event, that no "votes" were taken, least of all for purposes of agreement or
> >consensus. The idea -- and there was much groaning and whining about it --
> >was to take straw polls to see where disagreements lay.
>
> Please explain the difference in meaning between "straw poll" and "voting"
> and "consensus". I only have your notes of the meeting to go by, and you
> used all three terms interchangeably.
>
> If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck. . . . !
> _____________________
> >From the January 21 "closed" meeting minutes, Part Two:
>
> >
> >[Following is a series of "straw polls" on various matters identified by
> Marc Chinoy as important. There was lively discussion about whether these
> were the important questions, and some of the questions were modified more
> than once before being polled. In all the polling except for Question 4
> (q.v.), the following scale was used:
>
> Position 1 - Absolute necessity
> Position 2 - Strong value to the proposition
> Position 3 - Some value - a solution that *could* work
> Position 4 - Won't work - dead against
>
> Participants were allowed to vote only once, and abstentions were not
> counted.]
>
> Question 1 - Should the DNSO incorporate separately?
>
> Position 1 - 1 vote
> Position 2 - 9 votes
> Position 3 - 17 votes
> Position 4 - 6 votes
>
> Question 2 - Should the DNSO have substantial control over prices?
>
> Position 1 - 8 votes
> Position 2 - 4 votes
> Position 3 - 2 votes
> Position 4 - 3 votes
>
> [Note: several participants complained that they didn't understand the
> question. As I understood it, the question referred to fees charged to
> registries/members or whoever was funding the DNSO, and perhaps therefore
> ICANN.]
>
> Bernard Turcotte -- The question is whether ICANN imposes a levy, or DNSO
> budgets money for ICANN.
>
> Question 3 - Should the DNSO have substantial control over its budget?
>
> Position 1 - 28 votes
> Position 2 - 5 votes
> Position 3 - 0 votes
> Position 4 - 0 votes
>
> Question 4 - Should the DNSO use a consensus model or a structured
> representation system?
>
> [This question used a different scale. Instead of progressing from strong
> agreement to strong disagreement, the four positions were used to indicate a
> spectrum, progressing from consensus to structured representation. Thus a
> vote for Position One indicated a strong preference for the consensus model,
> while a vote for Position 4 indicated a strong preference for structured
> representation.]
>
> Position 1 - 7 votes
> Position 2 - 1 vote
> Position 3 - 12 votes
> Position 4 - 6 votes
>
> Question 5 - Is the primary purpose of the DNSO to make policy
> recommendations to ICANN?
>
> [There was a unanimous consensus on this point.]
>
> ______________________
>
> >I'm pretty sure I saw Don Telage and Don Heath at the meeting on the 22nd.
> >I'm positive I saw Roger Cochetti.
>
> I doubt the list posted at the WITSA site accurately reflects those
> attending the meeting. Was there a sign-in procedure? If so, who handled
> it?
>
> Ellen Rony Co-author
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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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