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The Governance Scope regulates the governance processes and balance of power of the Sky Ecosystem. The Governance Scope must ensure that the resilient equilibrium of Sky Governance remains protected against all potential direct and indirect threats.
This Article defines a general emergency response protocol for managing emergencies or urgent situations outside of the standard Weekly Governance Cycle and Monthly Governance Cycle.
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The Sky Protocol has often required changes outside of the standard Weekly Governance Cycle and Monthly Governance Cycle to help maintain the peg or to quickly respond to changes in the Ecosystem. This Section defines a general protocol for handling emergency or urgent situations. governs the resolution of emergency / urgent situations involving the Executive Process.
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The Support Facilitators are empowered to declare an emergency situation, in consultation with the responsible Facilitator of the impacted Scope(s) and any relevant Scope Advisor(s).After an emergency situation has been declared, the Support or Governance Facilitators are responsible for coordinating emergency-situation processes to ensure they are civil, consistently applied and aligned. The Governance Facilitators are responsible for publishing Polls and Executive Votes.Any participant in the Sky Ecosystem, including Ecosystem Actors, Aligned Delegates or other community members, can request that the Support Facilitators declare an emergency. The Support Facilitators are granted broad discretion in handling such requests.
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The Facilitators are required to consider several important factors before expediting changes to the protocol:• Potential for SKY holders to miss a poll or Executive Vote due to departure from the standard governance cycles.• Expedited votes may not allow for sufficient discussion, leading to a sub-optimal solution.• Increased governance burden on community and increased workload for domain teams.• Frequent expedited votes may signal a lack of appreciation for a consistent and predictable governance process.