[arin-ppml] Timeline for 2008-6 and 2009-1

[John Curran]

On Apr 3, 2009, at 4:55 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>
> The board members are ARIN's conservators, charged with dotting the
> i's, crossing the t's and, in exceptional cases, endeavoring to
> prevent the community's will from being thwarted by errors in the
> process.

Implementation of 2008-6 verbatim would have represented
such a situation, as there was a significant legal issue in the
final proposed text.  In order to avoid a protracted delay, the
Board attempted to fix this expeditiously by exercising the
emergency policy process.

The result of the Board using the emergency PDP at all, when
combined with its making multiple changes rather than the
bare minimum necessary has resulted in a justifiably agitated
community.  It probably didn't help matters that many in the
community hadn't noticed that the AC had recommended 2008-6
to the Board for adoption and hence it appeared the emergency
process was being used by the Board to independently create
a transfer policy...

The extension of the 2009-1 discussion period to the Public Policy
meeting in San Antonio ensures that the changes can receive
appropriate consideration.

/John
John Curran
Chair, ARIN Board of Trustees