[arin-ppml] The AC has a job to do with 2009-1, can you please help?

[Milton L Mueller]

Online polling mechanisms are worth a try, as long as they have the status of straw polls with no binding effect. Keep in mind that such voting takes time out of busy people's day, and the same highly motivated people who dominate discussions on the list are also the most likely to spend that time. But at least you would have a raw number indicating how many people voted, and what proportion that was of the total list participants. 

> -----Original Message-----
> I think there's something else going on. We routinely get in-depth
> discussion of some issues on PPML, but usually from a small group of
> active participants. We then have hundreds of attendees at the public
> policy meetings, where another group of active participants does most
> of the talking at the mic. But then, when we have a vote, most of the
> silent attendees express their opinion, based on the arguments
> presented.
> 
> Perhaps we should make more use of online polling mechanisms to
> accomplish something similar on PPML. Or perhaps the current system
> works well enough.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Scott