- From: Robin Berjon via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:50:20 +0000
- To: public-patcg@w3.org
Voting is done by Member organisations, not individual participants. This would allow participant stuffing but it also wouldn't allow one to vote against their affiliation (since it's the affiliation that's voting). All group decisions are subject to Formal Objections and Appeals, including in the (very rare) occurrence of a vote. These would be between hard and impossible to process without knowing who voted what. That's without considering the fact that a vote would only ever take place if consensus weren't found; and for consensus not to be found people would have to speak up on the record for/against a given position. Finally, let's look at this in privacy terms since it's a privacy question: is that anonymity real? The upper bound for the number of participating Members in a group is in the mid-hundreds — in practice lower than that. The people who might want anonymity (assuming the provided rationale has any merit, which I won't comment on) will be concentrated on one side of the results — others will be open about their position. If there is abstention, it will be guessable using overall engagement (or presence) as a proxy. So very much as it is with the anonymity of third-party tracking, the identity of the anonymous voters will be easily guessed. -- GitHub Notification of comment by darobin Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/patwg-charter/issues/12#issuecomment-1082122061 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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