[governance] ICANN/USG Affirmation of Commitments

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<8219420.1254688051488.JavaMail.root at elwamui-lapwing.atl.sa.earthlink.net
 >, at 15:27:31 on Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Jeffrey A. Williams 
<jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com> writes
>>The problem with that is that the majority is volatile as a measure of
>>that. Look at this week's referendum in Ireland regarding the Lisbon
>>Treaty. That's a document with implications measured in generations. And
>>yet one short year later, when the vote was re-run, the voters
>>completely reversed their opinion on the issue. I doubt the underlying
>>"public interest" has changed that much.
>
>  I don't.  Opinions change rapidly and dramatically in part as
>a result of better information proliferation which the Internet has
>played a major role.  As more is known and understood about any issue
>or in fact legislation regarding an issue by the body politic that is
>Internet connected and believes they may be effected, their opinions
>and subsequent votes change accordingly and usually in Internet time,
>which as you have your self made note of, very rapid indeed.

Then you don't understand the amount of information already available to 
the population during the campaigning for these two real-world 
referendums.

>>Anyway, in the Internet Community we prefer to do things by consensus,
>>rather than voting.
>
>Consensus without measure is not a consensus, but a guess.

I'm not sure what this means.
-- 
Roland Perry
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