<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>"E. What would the community take as evidence in the short term that the Board is acting in good faith?  I'm concerned by what appears to be Board bashing on the list, wherein many things that any of us say or do are interpreted negatively and perhaps conspiratorially.  I realize that the great majority of people involved int he CCSG process do not have such attitudes, but predictably it only takes a very few individuals to sour and confuse a discussion and lessen its utility."<br /><br />In my opinion, an agreement to the development of an external whistleblower process to protect the post-tranaition process from bad actor government and corporate agents' influence.  No reason to waste time on anything before knowing the post-transition process won't be a facade of multistakeholder democracy. The moment the public finds out from "wikileaks" etc, that nefarious activity
 occurred the internet will become a 100% circus show, and that means conhressional hearings.<br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Where do we stand?                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top">Nigel,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don&#39;t see it like this.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">At the moment they want us to blink first.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And if we do not, they either are going to pass forward unmodified<br clear="none">(with whatever comments they like, of course), or, overturn<br clear="none">themselves by resolution (which I would see as the nuclear option at<br clear="none">the moment).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">greetings, el<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 2015-10-12 14:09, Nigel Roberts wrote:<br clear="none">[...]<br clear="none">&gt; But it&#39;s all academic, since no matter what the consensus outcome, the<br clear="none">&gt; Board reserves the right to reject it anyway.<br clear="none">[...]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse  \        / Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist (Saar)<br
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