Hi Vincent,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vincent Ngundi</b> <<a href="mailto:vincent@kenic.or.ke">vincent@kenic.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br>I agree with you on all of your (elided) points above
<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>(b) I also think we should come up with a more explicit way of<br>measuring consensus at the open public policy meetings.
</blockquote><div><br><br>Agree <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is<br>clearly important and is not well addressed in the current PDP.
<br>Should we measure consensus as a percentage, say 75%, of the total<br>number of members who vote in favour of a certain policy proposal?<br>Some registries, like APNIC, use a percentage to measure consensus<br>and I think this would be a nice idea.
</blockquote><div><br><br>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).<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>$ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net">
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