[ppml] Leaders or followers (times 2)

[Richard Jimmerson]

Hello Michael,

> The ARIN policy process contains the following:
> 
>   The Advisory Council will consider the discussions and 
>   judge the level of consensus in the community in order 
>   to prepare a final proposal for consideration by the 
>   ARIN Board of Trustees.
> 
> I take this to mean that the AC can write the proposal with any 
> wording that they may choose, i.e. in "preparing" a final proposal, 
> they don't have to just pass through wording from either the meetings 
> or the list.

It is possible the ARIN AC would judge the level of consensus 
that resulted from a policy proposal discussion and leave the 
original text as written by the author.  It is also possible 
community discussion may yield cases where the ARIN AC would
judge there is favorable consensus for a policy proposal with
slight modifications to language.

In either case, the paragraph that follows the one you have cited 
above requires that the final proposal be sent to the mailing list 
for a "Last-Call for Comments".

  The final proposal shall be posted on the ARIN web site on 
  a publicly accessible page, and a "Last-Call for Comments" 
  will be announced on ARIN members and public policy mailing 
  lists for a discussion period of no less than ten (10) regular 
  working days. This period can be extended if sufficient 
  comments are made that warrant further discussion and 
  consideration.

Best Regards,

Richard Jimmerson
Director of Operations
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael.Dillon at radianz.com
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:31 AM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: [ppml] Leaders or followers (times 2)
> 
> 
> > Changing the wording just causes it to diverge from the other RIR's 
> > policy, which defeats the entire purpose.
> 
> Hmmm... so should ARIN only be following the lead of other 
> RIRs or should 
> ARIN try to set policy that is a good example for other RIRs 
> to follow?
> 
> > The fact that a few people continue to have objections which were 
> > raised and dealt with to the satisfaction of the membership at the 
> > meeting doesn't seem terribly pertinent to me.
> 
> The ARIN policy process contains the following:
> 
>     The Advisory Council will consider the discussions and 
> judge the level 
> 
>     of consensus in the community in order to prepare a final 
> proposal for 
> 
>     consideration by the ARIN Board of Trustees.
> 
> I take this to mean that the AC can write the proposal with 
> any wording 
> that they may choose, i.e. in "preparing" a final proposal, 
> they don't 
> have to just pass through wording from either the meetings or 
> the list.
> 
> --Michael Dillon
>