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=====Procedures stakeholders should follow to explain decisions===== | =====Procedures stakeholders should follow to explain decisions===== | ||
Stakeholders should publish their explanations of decisions on issues discussed on the web, preferably on an open wiki, and cite sources for their reasoning (using URLs). Stakeholders should also cite the minutes/notes of their meetings with other stakeholders to explain decisions they have reached in concert. | Stakeholders should publish their explanations of decisions on issues discussed on the web, preferably on an open wiki, and cite sources for their reasoning (using URLs). Stakeholders should also cite the minutes/notes of their meetings with other stakeholders to explain decisions they have reached in concert. | ||
There are several lessons from existing consensus-based, | There are several lessons from existing consensus-based, multistakeholder processes in the realms of Internet policy or technical standard-setting that could be applied to the privacy multi-stakeholder process. We recommend a study of the W3C, IETF, WHATWG and microformats.org organizations. Many of the points those processes have come up with are summarized in this blog post by one of our contributors, Tantek Çelik: http://tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development. | ||
====C. Defining & Incentivizing Consensus==== | ====C. Defining & Incentivizing Consensus==== | ||
There are numerous factors in reaching consensus and they tend to differ based on the people involved and the issues at hand. For example, the W3C defines consensus roughly as a position which is either absent of objections, or has the least significant objections among several options. | There are numerous factors in reaching consensus and they tend to differ based on the people involved and the issues at hand. For example, the W3C defines consensus roughly as a position which is either absent of objections, or has the least significant objections among several options. | ||