[Mmwg] suggestion - Re: run off Elections - Results

[David Allen]

Let me make a suggestion.  We need a resolution.

Voting has taken about three weeks, including the time that otherwise 
might have contributed to the consultation.  Less than half those in 
the WG were drawn to express a position via the second ballot (a 
percentage not unlike the typical US election today, a reflection 
there anyway of problems with the process ...)  The mmwg voting 
rules, as they stand, were surely a best-effort, at the time 
formulated.

Voting, unfortunately, does not always reach the aims we need. 
Bertrand, in an earlier post (governance list), has noted as much. 
What we really need is the emergence of a couple leaders for a task 
that is not going to be easy.

Though I would like to be proven wrong, it seems unlikely that all 35 
WG members will express a consensus position.  Particularly when less 
than half were prepared to cast even a secret ballot.

In the circumstances, the second vote is what we have.

The suggestion:

Rather than look for 35 voices to sing the same tune, let's ask 
whether anyone vehemently objects to Jacqueline and Wolfgang as 
co-chairs. The clock is already four days into the ten days Nitin 
Desai asked for final interventions.  So, picking an arbitrary time, 
I suggest tomorrow Wednesday 23:59 GMT.  If no one has vehemently 
objected - nor vehemently objected to this process - then Jacqueline 
and Wolfgang are co-chairs.  They have plenty to do.  No explicit 
step is necessary.

Obviously, as my earlier post shows, personally I had already reached 
this conclusion.

On-going expressions of support, for the two, in the meantime, 
further cement their position.

It would also be nice for me to be proven wrong and to see all 35 
members come forward with affirmation, in that time frame.  The more 
who come forward, the stronger the sendoff for our new leaders.  We 
can give not only them, but ourselves, this good thing.

David