My colleague Danielle Kehl, in connection with another paper we're doing
on the transition and the accountability proposals, has come up with a
very useful spreadsheet that supplements Brenden's earlier analysis of
the voting allocations (at
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/08/11/ccwg-community-mechanism-threatens-to-upset-icann-balance/#comment-40415
).
You can access the spreadsheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OqhS0LJmTQZpqnnKf8kVCHWW_1KH_6YMEWT815Rr27w/edit#gid=0
We were trying to figure out: how do the different voting allocation
schemes affect the kinds of coalitions among the different groups that
are necessary to take actions (or to veto actions by others)?
Here's Danielle's description of how she put the spreadsheet
together:
"At the top I copied the chart from Brenden's original analysis, and
then using the percentages calculated the minimum number of SOs and ACs
in various combinations that it would take to get 75% for the high
threshold community powers like recalling the entire board or approving a
fundamental bylaw (and then what it would take to get a 25% coalition to
block one of those actions) as well as the 66% required to reject a
budget/operating plan or veto a change to the standard bylaw (and again,
the 34% coalition you'd need to get to block one of those actions). The
colors aim to make it a little bit easier to parse which of the voting
structures we're looking at (Current Proposal, Alternative #1,
Alternative #2, and Alternative #3). I called out the specific ACs in the
current proposal since they're apportioned different votes; everywhere
else I just use SO or AC generically since they're all weighted equally,
although obviously the ALAC and GAC are the ones of greater
concern."
Standing alone it doesn't necessarily indicate which proposal is the best
one, but it should hopefully clarify the various positions on that
question -
David
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