Are there not two issues at play here? The one is how CAG reaches a 
decision to forward advice to the Board, and the other is the terms 
under which the Board decides to accept or reject GAC advice. The core 
questions should be: What are the shortcomings of the status quo? What 
gets improved with the proposed changes? What are the downside risks 
from the proposed changes?

Thus far the discussion seems to be focused on whether the downside 
risks are large or small. What are the gains over the status quo that 
would make it worth supporting changes that increase the downside risks, 
be they small or large?

Sam L.


On 08/09/2014 11:22 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I can't see why govt would do this.  Think about the current vin/wine
>> impasse, or discussions GAC's had about any number of new TLDs.  Simple
>> majority or even super would reduce their individual influence.  No?
>>
>> Adam
> It drepends on the political situation. A motivated, disciplined faction of governments could rationally calculate that
>
> a) we have a majority of votes
> b) we are likely to retain a majority for some time
> c) we share common interests (or enemies) across a number of IG issues
>
> ...and conclude, let's make this thing run on majority of govts, and we will have control of it.
> This kind of thing does happen in the UNGA, does it not? I am not saying this is imminent in the GAC/IG world, but it does not seem entirely implausible.
>
> Milton L Mueller
> Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
>


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