[address-policy-wg] what does consensus mean

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:40:28AM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via address-policy-wg wrote:
> 1) When you believe you agree with a policy proposal and declare it to the list (so chairs can measure consensus), do you ???agree??? only with the ???policy text??? or with the arguments written down in the policy proposal, or with the NCC interpretation (impact analysis), or all of them?

People sometimes explicitely mention this ("I agree with the aims of the
proposal and the way it is written").  Sometimes they don't agree with
all of it ("I agree with the aims of the proposal but the text needs more
work").

And sometimes they state "support", which I take as an indication that 
they agree both with the aim and the wording of the proposal.


> 2) What if the text in those 3 pieces are presenting contradictions or can be easily be interpreted in different ways?

We've had proposals where the IA brought up very much inintended consequences
(contradicting the rationale, the IA cannot "contradict the policy text"),
and this was addressed by a new round of policy text and new IA.

Which is, basically, why we have the IA in the first place: ensure that
the NCC shares our understanding of what we're asking the colleagues to do.

Gert Doering
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