[arin-ppml] Community Networks IPv6 Assignment (2008-3 update)

[Martin Hannigan]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Martin
Hannigan<martin.hannigan at batelnet.bs> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Lea Roberts<lea.roberts at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> dear PPML community -
>>
>> at the last meeting, ARIN XXIII, my perception was that the majority of
>> the opposition to Policy Proposal 2008-3 seemed to be a concern that the
>> inclusion of paid staff and a large budgetary number for network
>> operations could lead to its misuse as a "secret business plan" or other
>> abuse.
>>
>> in an attempt to address these concerns, I would like to offer this latest
>> text for discussion on the PPML.  in this version, the definition has been
>> changed to limit this policy to all-volunteer staffed community networks.
>>
>> from the original definition, the text:
>> "the community network staff is at least 50% volunteer and that the annual
>> budget for community network activities is less than $250,000."
>>
>> has been replaced with:
>> "the community network staff is 100% volunteers."
>
> I think that we are trying to put lipstick on a pig. In doing some
> research on this policy and the apparent intent, my general feeling is
> that we ought to write a new policy (abandon this one to the scrap
> heap) and focus it on NGO's.
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>


That was fast. Off list question:

1. Definition of NGO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization


-M<