[ppml] Mutating RSA?

[Edward Lewis]

At 9:20 -0700 4/17/06, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>       On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Edward Lewis wrote:
>     > As far as giving ARIN change control, ARIN is run by the membership,
>     > not the staff.
>
>I think you'd be hard pressed to attribute _that_ change to the
>membership.  And it certainly didn't come from the AC or the Board.

Perhaps I am being naive, having not poured over the RSA, but I 
assume that it, like everything else done by ARIN, ultimately answers 
to the membership.  Whether via the AC or the BoT (whom we elect), or 
by our collective financial support.

(I'm thinking of a discussion in which the BoT was free to suspend a 
policy that was wrecking undo havoc on the routing tables, as if 
there was a rush for PI v6 space.  It seemed to me that the BoT was 
the ultimate arbiter of ARIN's actions.)

The RSA is based on a body of legal work which is not in my area of 
experience.  I don't have the time to study it and still work on what 
I am trained to do, therefore I trust that this work is otherwise 
properly reviewed.  I am not looking to have to do this review, I 
don't anticipate any problems, so I don't think I can pull in any 
company lawyers for this.

If it is up to people like me to review it, then I should ask - how 
does the membership make comments on the RSA, how does the membership 
influence it?  Is there a means to appeal a change to the RSA?
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