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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose">Resending as I apparently used an incorrect email address<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Corwin, Philip <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Gnso-igo-ingo-crp' <gnso-igo-ingo-crp-bounces@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Proposed Revision of Consensus Levels<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Following up on the statement I made during our WG call earlier today, I believe that the initial designations of support for Options 1 and 4 are incorrect and that they should be changed from “Consensus” to “Strong support but significant
opposition”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Section 3.6 (Standard Methodology for Making Decisions) of the GNSO WG Guidelines (<a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-30jan18-en.pdf">https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-30jan18-en.pdf</a>)
describes those designations as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Consensus - a position where only <b>a small minority disagrees</b>, but most agree.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Strong support but significant opposition - a position where, while most of the group supports a recommendation, there are
<b>a significant number of those who do not support it</b>. (Emphasis added)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So the relevant question is whether the opposition to Options 1 and 4 constitutes a “small minority” or “a significant number”.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Option 1 for Recommendation 5 received support from 11 WG members and opposition from 3; those opposed constituted 21.5% of all members expressing a view.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Option 4 for Recommendation 5 received support from 10 members and opposition from 3; those opposed constituted 23% of all members expressing a view. That is just shy of one-quarter of all responses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is no bright line test in the Guidelines for discerning the dividing line between a small minority and a significant number, and reviews of dictionary definitions of “significant” are not of much value in this context. While there
can be no doubt that results above 20% are statistically significant, the most common definitions of the term are “important” or noteworthy”. My personal view is that a “small minority” would be 10% or less, but that when more than a fifth and nearly one-quarter
of those expressing a view are in opposition to a given position it should be regarded as a “significant number”. The fact that just three members are in opposition cannot be used alone to designate them as a “small minority” given the very small size of
the total group expressing a view – if the responses were multiplied by 10 there would be 110 in favor of Option 1 and 30 opposed, and 100 on favor of Option 4 and 30 opposed, and in both instances the opposition should be viewed as significant.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If the Chair does not alter the initial designations I will include this statement in my Minority Report.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Philip S. Corwin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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