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[Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 AT gmail.com>]

Jonah Aragon wrote:
> >> 4. VOTING
> >> ----------------
> >>
> >> 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).
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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).

Perhaps a better solution would be to permit the zone administration a 
veto, but that veto can be overruled by the broader OpenNIC membership 
(i.e. this list)?


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