CB.13:5.6 - A small team selects the protocol, a wider forum does not

Five volunteer organisers have adopted the Core Commitments and the full Decider and Resolution instructions for decisions within their session-planning mandate. They have authority over their own preparation and the allotted room time. Other community members have made no such commitment.

One organiser proposes using the next forty-five-minute session for two prepared cases. Four vote yes and one votes no. Asked for the needed change, the dissenter requests the material a day beforehand. The case author agrees to supply it. The proposer accepts this simple amendment, checks that all five remain in, and returns the decision and preparation responsibility. The material arrives as agreed; the session can use it. The protocol has helped this team settle one actionable proposal without creating a community-wide mandate.

On a later proposal, a requested amendment adds a separate paid workshop, changes the available time and needs funding that has not been obtained. The proposer withdraws it; the team must obtain the missing contributions before offering a new feasible proposal. The previous assent cannot authorise the expanded undertaking.

A subsequent forum includes volunteers who want to decide separately which activities they will help with. They do not accept compulsory voting or commitments made in their absence. The organisers use consultation followed by explicit agreement to each person’s own contribution. They retain the small team’s chosen procedure only within its actual membership and mandate.