[Chapter-delegates] ChAC-SC Advice notice

[Mike Godwin]

I take Juan’s objections here—as I take Franca’s and Solomon’s—quite
seriously. I have great respect for the use of “consensus”-focused
processes in the UN and civil-society contexts. That said, the “consensus”
process is generally accepted primarily with regard to issues around which
there is little or no controversy. The evidence I’ve seen suggests that
there is strong dissent—which may of course represent less than a majority
of interests—regarding ChAC’s recommendations. In general, the UN approach,
and the civil-society approach, aims at ensuring that all dissenting voices
be heard. What seems to me to be the case in this context is that, in the
interests of presenting an appearance of “full” and “unanimous” backing of
a recommendation, procedural aspects of the use of a consensus process have
been deployed to give the larger apprearance if unanimity.

This may, of course, be entirely accidental. Many people may reasonably
believe that process was not intentionally used to eliminate the appearance
of dissent or lack of unanimity. This is what I personally choose to
believe.

But when the issues being debated are controversial, the general rule in
civil society is to use procedural rules to be inclusive of dissent rather
than seem to be willing to erase it.

Mike Godwin

On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 4:04 PM Juan C. Cigala, Internet Society Canarias
via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I agree with Franca and Solomon, silence is not consent.
>
> Many of us haven't the time to take care of this kind of never ending
> kind of discussions.
>
> I support the debate, but with the due respect for the time of the others.
>
>
> On 2/27/2020 04:49, Solomon Hopewell Kembo via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> > I agree with Franca, silence is not consent.
>
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