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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.
Emergency preparedness is a critical priority. The Support Facilitators, in consultation with the Protocol Security Workstream Lead, must regularly evaluate the emergency preparedness of the Emergency Response Group. This can be done through running fire drills or through extensive postmortems after an actual incident.
For an Alignment Conserver who has been appointed to the Emergency Response Group, the requirements of this role become as critical to the assessment of their overall performance as their customary obligations.The Support Facilitators and Protocol Security Workstream Lead are required to document all instances of Emergency Response Group Members’ failure to meet emergency-preparedness requirements. Given their domain expertise and proximity to each emergency situation, the Support Facilitators and Protocol Security Workstream Lead are granted the discretion to evaluate emergency-preparedness deficiencies. Generally, they are required to take swift action to address non-negligible emergency-preparedness deficiencies in the following manner.Where the deficient Member is an Alignment Conserver, that Member should be derecognized pursuant to .Where the deficient Alignment Conserver is the Support Facilitators, the Protocol Security Workstream Lead and a majority of active Scope Facilitators must reach consensus in order to initiate a derecognition proceeding against the Support Facilitators. Once this threshold is met, the procedure defined in should be followed. In the interim, other Scope Facilitators must step in temporarily to coordinate emergency response.The initiation of derecognition is done at the discretion of the Support Facilitators (or other Scope Facilitator) and the Protocol Security Workstream Lead. However, the Support Facilitators and Protocol Security Workstream Lead may not proceed with removal unless it is supported with clear documentation. Such documentation must be made available to all Emergency Response Group Members for review.When an Alignment Conserver is removed from the Emergency Response Group and derecognized for deficient performance, the Governance Facilitators must transparently announce this action pursuant to .The Support Facilitators have the discretion to decide if documentation supporting the Alignment Conserver’s derecognition and removal should be retained internally or publicly shared on the Forum (with redactions, if needed)