[governance] Preliminary results of consensus call on IGC

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Thank you Paul for this excellent work.

> CHARTER:
> "All voting will be open," [unless a secret ballot is adopted.]

I suggest that to maintain this openness but to reduce complaints about the volume of votes on the list, we will experiment with an optional Web-based vote next time, with registration and open archives of votes cast.  If anyone lacks Web access, they could still vote here.

> The actual text being voted on recites at the bottom what appears to
> be the full number of listserv participants (about 400) to enhance the
> credibility of IGC consensus statements (one assumes) and yet the IGC
> does not allow a substantial section of the 400 to vote on the
> consensus.  The larger the number of people from whom a concensus is
> reached the stronger the resulting statement of consensus is, so there
> appears to be a result here that is not in the best interests of the
> IGC.

Well, I do agree and I can only say that I (and at least certain others too) were under a misapprehension about what was required.  Hopefully the future revised Charter can be clearer on this.

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