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Although 'Unanimous Consent' appears to be a well defined and used in

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the US Senate, Canadian Parliament and Australian Senate, it was
causing some confusion.  After some consultation with Mark Murray,
change this to 'without objection' since often times a plain-speaking
term is preferable to a regionally used term.

Also, clarify that this procedure is to be used when for more mundane
matters that need a sanity check, but don't need the whole, ponderous
voting proceedure that more difficult issues require.  Core members
that read email in any given 48 hour period are trusted enough to know
the difference and to provide the sanity check as necessary.

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etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unanimous Consent</h3>
<h3>Without Objection</h3>
<ul>
<li>Any core member may get Unanimous Consent of core to do
something.</li>
<li>This person shall send mail to core asking for unanimous
consent.</li>
<li>If no one objects within 48 hours, then core has approved it
(or sooner if (2/3 * core-size) members say yes).</li>
<li>Any core member may ask core, via email, if they can take
some mundane action, subject to a quick sanity check of the
rest of core.</li>
<li>If no one objects within 48 hours, then that person may proceed
(or sooner if (2/3 * core-size) members agree).</li>
<li>If there are any objections, then it will be resolved via the
issue voting procedure.</li>
<li>Core secretary may send the OK to proceed message, as the
secretary deems appropriate.</li>
</ul>
<p>Any committer may get unanimous consent of core to do something so
long as at least one core member says 'yes' and the previous paragraph
is otherwise followed.
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/Senate_legislative_process.htm">
Unanimous Consent</a> is a specific term used by the US Senate
to mean 'without objection' and is used instead of a formal vote
for routine matters.
</p>
<p>Any committer also use this mechanism so long as at least one
core member says 'yes' and the previous paragraph is otherwise
followed. It is intended to be used for mundane matters that
need a quick sanity check, but don't need a more heavy weight
and deliberative process. It is believed that the subset of
core present for any given 48 period are sufficient for both
sanity checking mundane matters and recognizing non-mundane
matters that need to be handled via the issues voting
procedure.</p>
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