[WikiEN-l] Root and Branch - it's the only way.

[Jimmy Wales]

Angela wrote:
>  --- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <jheiskan at welho.com> wrote:
> >Please, let us invest the Mediation Committee with an
> >explicit power of binding referral to the Arbitration
> >Committee...
> 
> I completely agree with Cimon. If participants in
> mediation have followed all the steps of the dispute
> resolution process, mediation has failed, and the
> mediation committee recommends arbitration, is there
> any reason the arbitrators still need to vote on
> whether to accept the case? Can they not trust the
> mediation committee to make these referrals? 

I agree with this completely.

--Jimbo