[governance] CONSENSUS CALL RESULTS Re: Draft letter text

[Norbert Bollow]

[With IGC Coordinator hat on]

Dear all

Now that the deadline of the consensus call has passed, it is time to
announce the results.

With regard to the first part, this is easy: There was no opposition at
all to the proposed change of base document for the decision-making
process. So I hereby declare that part of the consensus call to have
passed.

With regard to the second part, the situation is unfortunately a bit
more complicated: While there were no formally valid consensus call
objections, opposition has been voiced in the decision-making process
thread, informally, in particular against one aspect of the draft
letter, namely that it directly addresses only the government of Brazil
and the country's president, and not also “equally” Fadi Chehadé.

I hereby accept the opposition voiced by Avri and McTim as *possibly*
having been meant in the sense of consensus call objections.

Avri and McTim, please indicate ASAP whether your opposition against
this aspect was intended as consensus call objections, and if yes,
please provide a specific proposal for how to reword the top part of
the draft letter to change the “choice of addressee(s)” aspect in a way
that would be acceptable from your perspective.

Please provide this response by 7pm UTC Oct 13, 2013 at the latest.

If at least one of Avri and McTim sustains the opposition that has been
expressed by means of stating that it was meant in the sense of a
consensus call objection, and by providing a specific corresponding
change request, I will issue a new specific consensus call for that
change request. That consensus call would be very narrow in scope: It
would not re-open any other aspect of the draft letter.

If neither Avri nor McTim proceeds as described above, I will declare
part 2 of the orginial consensus call to have passed.

Greetings,
Norbert


Am Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:55:29 +0200
schrieb Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>:

> Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > [MG>] As per the various discussions, comments, suggestions could I
> > now formally propose the following shorter text to replace the draft
> > text currently under consideration
> 
> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
> 
> Thanks Michael!
> 
> I was getting a bit uneasy procedurally as it was not quite clear how
> the text that consensus was apparently developing around would be
> related to the formal IGC decision-making process that had been
> initiated as being based on a different text (the one taken from what
> was at that time the status of the etherpad).
> 
> On the basis of this proposal, I hereby issue the following two-part
> consensus call:
> 
> 1) Do we have consensus on using the text that Michael posted as the
> basis for going forward? Any objections to this part should please
> state explicitly something like "I object to part 1 of the consensus
> call" and give a justification, i.e. an explanation of why for some
> specific reason this text is worse than the original draft that came
> from the etherpad.
> 
> 2) Do we have consensus on accepting this text as-is without further
> changes? Any objections to this part should please state explicitly
> something like "I object to part 2 of the consensus call", and make an
> explicit change request (i.e. you'd make an explicit proposal with new
> text and a clear indication of where it would go, and/or what should
> be deleted) and justification (i.e. and explanation why this change
> is in your view necessary). 
> 
> Please post any objections to either part 1 or part 2 by Sunday Oct
> 13 6am UTC.
> 
> Silence will be interpreted as no-objection. Explicit statements of
> support will not influence this stage of the process materially, but
> are nevertheless very welcome!
> 
> A full copy of the concerned proposed text follows.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> > Your Excellency President Rousseff and other representatives of the
> > Brazilian government, 
> > 
> > We, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals from
> > around the world, would like to express our appreciation and support
> > for the recently announced initiative of the government of Brazil,
> > along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> > (ICANN), to “discuss the necessary changes to Internet governance”
> > and to restore trust in the Internet as the foundation of our global
> > information societies.
> > 
> > We consider these to be discussions of crucial importance for the
> > future development of the Internet in the global public interest and
> > for the shared benefit of the peoples of the world.
> > 
> > Civil society offers to fully participate in this undertaking as an
> > equal partner, whose various processes we believe should be open and
> > inclusive. Brazil has an exemplary record of genuine civil society
> > partnerships with regard to many global as well as domestic issues,
> > and we look forward to working with Brazil on this current
> > initiative.
> > 
> > In view of the global importance of this subject, we look forward to
> > contributing to your initiative with specific and concrete
> > proposals. We also look forward to carrying on a dialogue on this
> > initiative at the upcoming Bali IGF.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> 


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