SO Directors serve three-year terms, staggered from one to three years initially. No SO directors have been elected to the Board yet. The ideas is for each SOP to be self-supporting. More significantly, the Board does not need to obtain SO consent for its actions. The three Supporting Organizations lack genuine power.
Resistance is useless.
The passions spent discussing the issues before the SOs distract us from this lack of democracy. More technical than political, but much is at stake. Without global agreements to stay within the protocol parameters, the entire network can unravel, communications becoming unreliable. Taking responsibility for the seriousness of this task, the PSO is confronting massive work as the Internet goes broadband. Building a consensus regarding IP standards is not easy, and the board likely will accept all recommendations from this SO, but the board isn't obliged to do so. .