[arin-ppml] Substantial change to 2011-9 post adoption in other regions -> Was: Re: Draft Policy ARIN-2011-9 (Global Proposal): Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA - revised

[S Moonesamy]

Hi Marty,

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At 15:46 25-09-2011, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>Comment on this change:
>
>It appears that this new text is intended to act as an "asterisk" to 
>the policy which does in fact attempt to change it's meaning "after 
>the fact"; it has already been passed in other regions without this 
>asterisk. Some might be tempted to argue that the rationale wouldn't 
>be considered, but then why add it if it wasn't needed to "clarify" 
>the proposal after adoption in other regions?

The authors of the proposal had a discussion with the ARIN Advisory 
Council when the change was proposed.  I requested a clarification 
about the matter ( 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2011/msg00879.html 
).
The ARIN CEO commented on the matter ( 
http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2011-September/023220.html ).

Regards,
S. Moonesamy