[arin-ppml] Looking at just the pro and con merits of 2009-1 review

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> A policy establishing an address market is well out in front of
> anything we've done before. The odds of getting it right the first
> time are effectively nil. The sunset date assures up front that the
> mistakes we make here won't propagate indefinitely.
> 

Revisions and improvements of a transfer policy can be done without a sunset. Absent a sunset, there would have to be clear consensus that a problem existed and that proposed revisions solved those problems before any action was taken, which is good. A sunset simply invites the original opponents of the policy to reiterate their ideological opposition another 20 times after 3 years. No thanks. No sunset.