[arin-ppml] 2011-1 not adopted Was:Re: Board Adopts Draft Policies

[Paul Vixie]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:23:58 -0500
William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> > Marty, I'm ever curious to know if there's anything bad going on
> > with ARIN. If you think we're not transparent enough, ...
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Three, possibly four AC members explain their views to the PPML on
> many or most drafts. The rest show up (mostly), vote and hide their
> own opinions behind the anonymous "we" published by the group.

quite a bit of "collegiality" can look to outsiders like "solidarity"
but is not necessarily that.

> Is that transparent? Does it allow non-AC draft authors to anticipate
> and address concerns a particular AC member is likely to have?

operatively, if an AC member is not influencing outcomes in any way
then they are probably a net loss to both the community and to the AC
as well as to draft policy authors. as a lurker on the AC mailing list
i do not think that we have any AC members like that.

> I don't happen to see transparency at the root of ARIN's problems but
> there is surely room for improvement.

can you explore out loud the parts of the AC's job you think should be
conducted (for transparency's sake) in full public view vs. those not?
 
-- 
Paul Vixie