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 Center for Internet and Society
The Debate Over Internet Governance:
A Snapshot in the Year 2000
 

 

Introduction


Interviews

    Karl Auerbach
    Fred Baker

    John Perry Barlow
    Dave Crocker
    Jay Fenello
    Carl Kaplan
 
    Michael Krieger
    Jamie Love
    Eric Menge
    Charles Nesson

    Mike Roberts
    Joe Sims

    

Topics
  Consensus
   The Future
   Governance
   ICANN
   The Internet
   Participants' Internet
      Background
   Participants' Biographies


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CONSENSUS

ICANN, like the IETF, sets forth consensus as its standard for decision-making.  Yet, as our participants’ answers reveal, consensus is a term that is difficult to define in hard terms.  Indeed, attempting to assign a numerical equivalent of “consensus” seems to undermine the very values that a loose, theoretically supermajoritarian standard achieves.  At the same time, the inability to quantify consensus may undermine ICANN’s authority by calling into question whether it has adhered to its own procedural guidelines. 


DEFINING CONSENSUS
Karl Auerbach
John Perry Barlow
Dave Crocker
Carl Kaplan
Michael Krieger
Eric Menge
Charles Nesson


IS CONSENSUS
THE RIGHT STANDARD? / WHY CONSENSUS?
Fred Baker
John Perry Barlow ( Part I | Part II )
Dave Crocker
Jay Fenello

Carl Kaplan
Michael Krieger
Mike Roberts


THE DIFFICULTY OF USING CONSENSUS

Dave Crocker


ALTERNATIVES TO CONSENSUS

Karl Auerbach


DEFINING ICANN'S CONSTITUENCY

Fred Baker
Jay Fenello


DOES CONSENSUS LIMIT ICANN'S AUTHORITY?

Carl Kaplan
Michael Krieger


CONSENSUS AS APPLIED (BY ICANN)

Joe Sims

 


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