[arin-ppml] Advisory Council Meeting Results - May 2010

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> I believe summary judgment to be an accurate definition to apply to
the
> behavior you describe.

Summary judgement is a legal term referring to judges who make a
judgement
without a full trial.

In this case, the AC meetings are not trials, and the AC members are not
judges. There was no judging, no judgement. The AC simply discussed the
policy proposals and assessed them according to the PDP and to the AC's
own agreed practices.

To call the AC decision a summary judgement is out of line.

The fact is that the only policies that ARIN ever adopts are the ones
Which have the *SUPPORT* of a majority of the AC. This is by design,
i.e. the ARIN Charter and Bylaw writers intended it to be this way.

Remember that the public does not vote. In a voting situation it can be
worthwhile to split hairs and argue about marginal issues because if it
changes even one vote, it can make a difference.

But there are no votes here. If a policy does not have strong support,
then a slight shift in the level of support is meaningless. The fact is
that only policies with strong support get through.

--Michael Dillon