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Dear Philip, I don't think the Secretariat and/or the EC can disclose the vote count breakdown by membership category in any case, especially whether the distribution has a specific pattern or not. I hope you understand in this way. Regards, Akinori In message <46F13C46.2050705@cisco.com> "Re: [Wg-apnic-fees] Results of APNIC fee structure vote (fwd)" "Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>" wrote: | Hi Paul, | | Paul Wilson said the following on 19/9/07 14:41: | > | > I have consulted with the APNIC EC on this question. | > | > The detailed breakdown of votes by member category could help to reveal | > the specific votes of individual members. APNIC votes are cast by | > secret ballot in order to protect the identity of voters, therefore it | > is not considered appropriate to reveal the detailed breakdown. | > | > I hope this reasoning is clear. | | Absolutely! I thought I'd ask anyway, given we saw the breakdown between | on-site and on-line voting. | | But the refusal by the EC to sanction publication of the per-category | split (implying that it is known) actually reveals something else. ;-) | | If each membership category voted roughly 30:70, then it would be hard | to tell which member voted which way unless there was a certain category | with limited membership numbers that voted solidly in one direction. | | I find this fascinating...! | | philip | -- | _______________________________________________ | Wg-apnic-fees mailing list | Wg-apnic-fees@apnic.net | http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/wg-apnic-fees |
