Hi Team,

 

I’ve been pondering something since our last call based on a question that Steve D. asked.  It seemed to me that we were moving away from building consensus (on the small team at first and the Council later) and more towards counting prospective votes.  But what we are doing here isn’t policy development (ICANN Org are capable of building the voluntary-participation WDS system with or without us weighing in).  We are merely trying to gather a consensus around  our response to the Staff design paper: “yes, we want Org to build this and we will work out some of the sticky details while that is being done” or “no thanks.”  Either way, I don’t believe the mechanism/outcome is a formal motion & vote from Council, but rather consensus by the Council one way or the other based on the small team recommendations and then a letter to the Board conveying how it came out.

 

Staff, can you confirm that a formal vote isn’t necessary?  Everything else we have done so far on this project has been informal consensus and communications to the Board.  We don’t have to switch that now, right?  If we do, why?

 

Best,

Paul