Re: [ga] Procedure.

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

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> Alexander Svensson wrote:
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>> About the 50 percent rule which you call "arbitrarily complex":
>> I cannot understand what you mean by that. If neither motion
>> is approved by a majority of the voters, you will surely
>> not consider them approved by the GA? Every motion obviously
>> needs more Yes than No votes and abstentions!
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> I find it inteesting that this 50% rule is suddenly being invoked to 
> establish legitimacy in a GA vote... why has this not been the case to 
> date with respect to GA votes? 

Because, as I've repeatedly pointed out, until you get to the DNSO 
Secretariat level, the GA has never had a set procedure for voting on 
anything.  With the help of Vittorio Bertola and other good folks, 
including yourself, Joop, etc., as I recall, icannatlarge.com was able 
to carry out a clean, clear, definitive vote for the members of its 
Panel (of which you became a member) with a minimum of confusion. The GA 
has never been able to do anything like that, because it would rather 
play politics.
Right up to some arbitrarily selected deadline people are piling in with 
more "motions" or "RESOLUTIONS" or whatever; new, ad hoc procedures are 
announced (and to which substantial opposition comes to be expressed), 
and while there was some amount of debate and discussion, most of it 
consisted of expositions of political positions rather than precisely 
defined and targeted comment on specific motions. A vote will now be 
taken, but without there having been the kind of discussions on which 
knowledgeable and meaningful votes could be cast.

However, even out of that, there will come some kind of indication of 
where all us folks want to go, in the same manner as I hope will soon be 
carried out in icannatlarge.com (see my last post there), namely, does 
everyone want to continue riding on the ICANN bus, or is it time to 
start building anew.

Bill Lovell

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> Sincerely,
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> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
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