[CCWG-ACCT] Stress Test 18: bylaw amendment suggestion

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

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> On 13 Nov 2015, at 05:32, Schaefer, Brett <Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org> wrote:
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> As I understand it, Pedro is proposing a significant expansion of GAC authority as compared to the status quo.
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> Currently, the Board, if it decides not to follow GAC advice, is required to "try, in good faith and in a timely and efficient manner, to find a mutually acceptable solution." Pedro proposes making a mutually acceptable solution and implementation compulsory -- "where that advice, if not followed, requires finding mutually agreed solutions for implementation of that advice."
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> Pedro is proposing raising the threshold for the Board to reject GAC advice from a simple majority to a two-thirds majority.
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> He is also proposing changing the standard from the "advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee on public policy matters shall be duly taken into account" into one where the Board must give GAC advice "due deference."
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> Pedro apparently is opposed to the idea that the bylaws should restrict the privileged treatment of GAC advice only when that advice is supported by the current definition of GAC consensus in Operating Principle 47, i.e. without formal objection. I may be wrong, but that is the impression I get from his insistence that in providing advice to the Board "each Advisory Committee has the right to determine its particular definition of consensus."
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> In sum, Pedro is proposing changes more radical than those that raised near unanimous opposition when the Board entertained it last year.
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> No thanks.
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> Brett Schaefer

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