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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

>> 4. VOTING
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>> All matters of administrative importance will be voted upon by members of the dotON domain registry. Motions will be passed by a simple majority of votes (50% + 1).
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> A majority is more than half. I don't think you need to state 50% + |x| > 50%. As you say, it's simple.

Just clarification. OpenNIC policies specifically stated it so I figured I would. Doesn't change anything regardless.

>> The dotON administration holds the right to veto any member votes, in order to retain control of .on operation.
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> Why shouldn't the members be allowed to select a new administrator?

That would seem to cause unnecessary chaos, transferring entire DNS servers, webservers, email servers, etc. Isn't just a simple task, and the administration should be able to retain control over the zone.

That being said, I would be open to a clause allowing a certain amount of votes to override a veto to retain democracy, similar to the United States Congress being able to override a presidential veto.

It primarily exists to prevent abuse in the early stages, where for example we could only have 3 registrations and votes to change administration could be dramatically swayed simply because 2 of the 3 support the motion (and we have no verification process to prevent duplicate membership).

Jonah

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