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- The Broadband Forum Work Areas, inclusive of including Project Streams, will seek to reach a consensus on the issues under review. The Chair (Work Area Director or Project Stream Leader) may conduct an informal show of hands to help determine consensus.
- See Section 11: Work Area/Committee Escalation Procedure of the Broadband Forum's Policies and Procedures document for more information about how non-consensus is handled.
"consensus" per the P&P is rough consensus and is as much based on qualitative argument as it is quantitative support or objection- The Chair (Work Area Director or Project Stream Leader) of any a meeting session is the only individual who has the authority to declare or make statements or declarations in the meetings regarding responsibility to determine the group's level of consensus.
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