[governance] Debunking eight myths about multi-stakeholderism

[Barry Shein]

FWIW, the usual characterization of Tyranny of the Majority is 51%
voting to kill the other 49%.

The mitigation is clear boundaries on what can and cannot be voted on
generally referred to as "rights", you cannot violate the following
list of rights with a vote...(list, plus evolved case law).

There's generally some way to modify the list usually involving voting
but one hopes it requires an inherently difficult process, not a
simple up/down vote. A term is "hysteresis" -- once rights have been
laid down then by design it should be difficult to remove or limit
them.

This is government 101 perhaps but it's also not been addressed in any
multistakeholder systems I've seen except perhaps through by-laws of a
corporation which is significant!

But to my mind one can't get to what can be voted on without first
having some idea of who can vote. These limitations have to be laid
out and approved.

Or by whatever the process for approving decisions is, voting is to
some extent a metaphor for any reasonably inclusive and transparent
approval process. Humming comes to mind:

     https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282

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        -Barry Shein

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