<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I agree. <br><br></div>IF the Board has to muster a super-majority to overrdie GAC advice AND the GAC abandons consensus (the former quite likely, the latter is any one's guess), then that is a totally different world than the staus quo, one where governmental power in ICANN is unchecked.<br><br></div>rgds,<br><br></div>McTim<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Avri Doria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org" target="_blank">avri@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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I agree with this analysis.<br>
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On 08-Sep-14 18:22, Milton L Mueller wrote:<br>
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>> I can't see why govt would do this. Think about the current<br>
>> vin/wine impasse, or discussions GAC's had about any number of new<br>
>> TLDs. Simple majority or even super would reduce their individual<br>
>> influence. No?<br>
>><br>
>> Adam<br>
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> It drepends on the political situation. A motivated, disciplined<br>
> faction of governments could rationally calculate that<br>
><br>
> a) we have a majority of votes<br>
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b) we are likely to retain a majority<br>
> for some time<br>
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c) we share common interests (or enemies) across a<br>
> number of IG issues<br>
><br>
> ...and conclude, let's make this thing run on majority of govts, and<br>
> we will have control of it. This kind of thing does happen in the<br>
> UNGA, does it not? I am not saying this is imminent in the GAC/IG<br>
> world, but it does not seem entirely implausible.<br>
><br>
> Milton L Mueller Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor Syracuse<br>
> University School of Information Studies<br>
> <a href="http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/" target="_blank">http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/</a><br>
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