Excellent analysis ...
Now that he's dug into it, do you think Brenden (whom I'm cc'ing here)
could be persuaded to analyze the current voting model not just in terms
of the way it matches (or doesn't match) ICANN's historical distribution
of power, but in terms of the way in which the voting allocation would
impact the various provisions elsewhere in the proposal for community
action by majority or super-majority vote? That is, it would be
worth knowing exactly (a) which actions require a majority of the
community votes (15 out of 29), which a supermajority (of 66% (= 20
votes) or 75% (= 22 votes)) and (b) what kinds of "coalitions"
within the community could, under the different allocations, block
particular actions. There's a big difference among the three
alternatives in the way each distributes "veto" power over
community action; e.g.
Alternative 3 gives any one of the SOs the ability to singlehandedly
block any action requiring 75% concurrence, while the other three
alternatives would require any one SO to join forces with some other
component in order to reach the veto threshold;
Alternatives 1 and 2 would allow any two of the groups (e.g. the ALAC and
the GAC, or the GNSO and the RSSAC, etc.) to join together to block any
proposed community action; the currently proposed allocation differs from
this, in that a veto would require a coalition between either (a) any two
of the "big" components (the three SOs along with ALAC and
GAC), or (b) any one of them plus the two smaller components
(RSSAC and SSAC) could do so.
I would think this would have a substantial impact on the way the
community expresses its collective "will," and it would be
great if there were a good systematic analysis of the matter out there
...
David
At 02:20 PM 8/11/2015, Mueller, Milton L wrote:
Dr. Brenden Kuerbis of IGP has
developed a very important analysis of the CCWG’s proposed voting
distribution model, which we need to take into account when developing
our comments.
Read it here:
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/08/11/ccwg-community-mechanism-threatens-to-upset-icann-balance/#comment-40415
Dr. Milton L. Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
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