[address-policy-wg] the post-mortem on 2008-08
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Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Thu Jul 28 11:46:37 CEST 2011
On 28 Jul 2011, at 09:35, Martin Millnert wrote: > this message of yours explains for me that you have not really > understood why or what people are having issues with, with these > issues. With respect Martin, you couldn't be more wrong. And anyway the next steps are not about what I might or might not understand or the issues raised in the last-minute objections to 2008-08. It's also not about "cheating the policy process" either. Nobody has suggested it was. It's about reconciling two (three?) mutually exclusive community decisions. We have a situation where the membership has authorised the NCC to develop an address certification system. This has been going on for years. It was the settled will of RIPE too. [Though that goes back to the days before the PDP existed.] We've all taken a punt that by the time this system was ready, there would be a consensus policy for it in place. 2008-08 is now dead. But the current mandate to the NCC is still in effect. A vote of the membership is needed to change that mandate. In my opinion, this is also the least bad way to proceed. Please note I did not say what that decision should be. Again. While you're right in theory to say we could start all over again and come up with a new address certification policy, I doubt it will work in practice. Positions seem too entrenched on all sides to find a compromise. I wonder too if consensus is now possible or if that can be reached in a reasonable amount of time. 2008-08 chugged along for 3 years and was apparently non-controversial.
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