Jordan, I think for the Fundamental Bylaws modification, the Board (or the community) proposes the modification In case the community proposes the modification It should go through the escalation process we described for the other powers to trigger the modification process, consult about its pertinence, formulate the proposal and then decide to submit the proposal, but perhaps with other thresholds then, and if the board accepts the proposal, it will put it to public comment In case the Board is the trigger of the modification, the community should go through the escalation process to approve or reject the proposal. In both cases, I do think the discussion in the community forum would be important for the following reasons: The community proposal would be well discussed so that the consensus to submit the modification would be easier to reach The community position on a board proposal to modify the fundamental bylaws would be better taken and the rationals better developed after a deep discussion in the community forum. Also, an alternative proposal could be discussed there. In both cases, I don’t see why we should skip the community forum. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tijani BEN JEMAA Executive Director Mediterranean Federation of Internet Association (FMAI) Phone: +216 98 330 114 Fax: +216 70 853 376 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------