<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 4, 2015, at 5:57 AM, Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>[...]<br><br>Although I have serious doubts about the reasonability of such a "veto" under these conditions, I don't think it would be fair to consider a Board member "recalcitrant" just because he would exercise his legitimate right of rejecting a community decision. I believe we need to come up with a suggestion that empowers the community on concrete, effective and legal terms. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Dear Pedro,</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps "recalcitrant" was not the best term to describe board members whom the stakeholders have lost confidence in, for whatever reason, and feel the need to remove or replace.</div><div><br></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Larry Strickling's remarks at SON last week regarding the work of this CCWG: "We also encourage this group to address questions such as how to remove or replace board members should stakeholders lose confidence in them ..." at:</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"> <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/speechtestimony/2015/remarks-assistant-secretary-strickling-state-net-conference-1272015">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/speechtestimony/2015/remarks-assistant-secretary-strickling-state-net-conference-1272015</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Best,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Robin</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>