[arin-ppml] Did 2008-6 provide what Board needed?

[David Farmer]

On 14 Apr 2009 Chris Grundemann wrote:

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> My understanding of the lack of a specified start date in 2008-6 is
> that it meant to leave the decision of when to pull the trigger up to
> the Board.  Since this was part of the proposal that gained consensus
> and the BoT obviously thinks that the trigger date/time is NOW, I
> think the logical thing to do (if we want to make this process
> predictable) is to trust the Boards judgement (as we were doing with
> 2008-6 already) and make the policy effective immediately.  Then we
> set the sunset date at implementation plus 5 years.  This means that
> if implemented following ARIN XXIII, the policy would be set to expire
> in May of 2014, three years after expected IANA exhaustion.  This
> solution provides a release valve now which should help stop or at
> least slow the run on the bank as well as a predictable end date that
> can be planned for.

I could mostly go for that, but I would like to set that to 
December 31, 2014, I still like a specific sunset date, not tied 
to when the implementation happened.  This is to allow  
planning of any policy changes to happen on a we'll known 
timetable, that has been selected to eliminate any unfortunate 
timing with PPMs.  The end of a calendar year is a good time 
to expire things, for many reasons.

However, while I agree the essence of the compromise for 
2008-6 was the sunset, others seem to believe the specific 
3year timetable played a role to, which is why I was trying to do 
my best to stay true to that as well.  You are correct it makes it 
much more complicated.

What do other think?

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