In my experience, a "best practice" for bylaws is to have some super-majority for initial adoption and also for subsequent amendment. It provides legitimacy by establishing widespread support for the rules.
Agreed. If we can't get a supermajority to say explicitly that they at least don't object, we don't have agreement. Given our experience with ALAC members who went AWOL, I also agree that we need a simple process to deal with people who've lost interest. We don't have to eject them, but we at least need to make them not count as part of a quorum. My suggestion for considering someone an active member would be a published comment on an ICANN issue within the preceding 18 months. That just requires following the issues and sending one e-mail message. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.