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    [bids-discussion mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bids-discussion)
    and ask for comments.
 
-9. Incorporate the feedback and strive for consensus.
+9. Incorporate the feedback and strive for consensus.  This may involve multiple iterations of the draft.
+  If alternative proposals are made among members and no consensus is reached among BEP participants, a BEP lead can ask the BIDS steering group to compose an ad-hoc decision group (consisting of at least 50% of members from each of the Steering and Maintainers groups) to review the case and to make a decision.
+
 
 10. Help to merge the extension into the main specification (this will require
    converting the proposal to Markdown and submitting a Pull Request at