<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font class="">Hi Jor</font>dan and Everyone,</div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="">Many thanks for sharing this text on voting weights. While the SSAC is still considering what form its participation in the Community Mechanism will take, I think your proposal allows for all options and Lyman and I both support this wording. In particular, we agree with the proposition of equal votes for all current and future SO/ACs.</font></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="">One other point...Near the end, the document says "[t]hat is, block voting (casting all votes in favour or against the use of a power, even where there are diverse views) is not encouraged." That wording strongly implies that casting all votes in a single block is *discouraged*, even if the views of all parts of an SO or AC happen to be aligned on a particular issue. We don't think that's what you mean, and suggest that the intention might better be expressed by "[t]hat is, where diverse views within an SO or AC exist even after consultation and discussion, that diversity should be 'passed through' in the vote distribution, rather than resolved into a consensus 'block vote' (casting all votes in favour or against the use of a power)."</font></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="">Cheers, Julie and Lyman</font></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div><div class="">On 26 Jul 2015, at 3:24 pm, Jordan Carter <<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" class="">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is an update of the previously not-updated text on voting weights. I am sorry that I haven’t got tracked changes to show you - it’s not much changed from what was circulated a few days ago (the redline staff draft that hadn’t actually been finished).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We still need to develop quorum and participation rules - I believe Bernie is working on a paper on this, for discussion next week.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is on the agenda for WP1 on 27 July.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">best</div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""></div></div><span id="cid:8F9F3BB5-089C-4CE3-BE7F-A3E614BA4F58@BigPond"><Section 5A2 - Community Mechanism - Voting.docx></span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div class=""></div></div><span id="cid:23776D12-0E35-452F-AD69-3451C83EC74D@BigPond"><Section 5A2 - Community Mechanism - Voting.pdf></span><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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