July 30, 2019
10:17 a.m.
On 30-07-19 10:42, Alan Woods wrote:
We understand the need to move matters along, and indeed, in non contentious matters, I can accept that silence will be acceptable, but, we do expect that in matters of a more substantive nature, including and for example, where comments to a document are to serve as the basis for draft policy recommendations, we would expect that such matters are to be decided on a more affirmative basis and we cannot support silence as being a valid indicator of approval in such instances.
Indeed. The risk of moving too fast based on "silence indicates approval" is that we might find us in a situation where at the end of the process, some parties can not support the (supposedly) consensus outcome. Julf