GAC override and majority voting

[Edward Morris]

Interesting. I wonder if the Commission would be so supportive of voting if 
other "distinct economies", in GAC speak, such as NAFTA and the ASEAN FTA 
were also GAC members. Europe is overrepresented in the GAC and the 
Commission itself resembles anything but a democratic organisation. I'd be 
interested in knowing how unified the nation-states of Europe were on this 
matter. Any ideas?




-----Original Message-----
From: Milton L Mueller <mueller at SYR.EDU>
To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:17:49 +0000
Subject: GAC override and majority voting

Someone was asking which government had proposed majority voting in GAC, and 
speculated that it was Iran.

In fact, I have learned that it was (drum roll) the European Commission.

This proposal came out as part of the nasty internal fight within GAC over 
.WINE/.VIN

 

 

Milton L Mueller

Syracuse University School of Information Studies

http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/

Internet Governance Project

http://internetgovernance.org

 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/ncsg-discuss/attachments/20140918/6372f980/attachment.htm>