[governance] Results of consensus call on themes statement

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 12/02/2011, at 4:34 AM, catherine wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the information but this does not really answer my request to
> sign the consensus document. Can you please reply to that?

It can't be signed, because there are no signatures attached to it.  It is only signed by the "Internet Governance Caucus" as a collective.  The poll that was conducted was not a request for signatures, but just a way for the coordinators to gauge the level of support that the statement had from IGC members, so that they could declare consensus on it or not.  In the past, we didn't even use a poll for that, we just asked people to put their thoughts on the mailing list.  There are only two types of formal votes that the IGC ever takes - voting for coordinators, and voting for charter amendments.  Every other decision is made by rough consensus.    I hope this explains the position better.

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