[governance] Reconciling Democracy & Multistakeholderism: Having a Voice vs. Having a Vote

[Karl Auerbach]

On 11/03/2011 04:27 PM, Paul Lehto wrote:

> Actually, McTim, no it is not democratic.  It is a hyper-conservative
> status quo-protecting non-democratic procedure, and here's why:

I agree - "consensus" generally means stasis.  The reason it works in
the IETF is that the IETF faces questions on narrow technical issues
that are decided by a narrow group of people who tend to share a lot of
values.

A voice without a vote is a nullity.

"Stakeholderism" is, in my book, a word of ill import as it contains the
notion that some people are more worthy than others.

See my paper "Stakeholderism – The Wrong Road For Internet Governance" at:
http://www.cavebear.com/archive/rw/igf-democracy-in-internet-governance.pdf

	--karl--


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