[arin-ppml] About needs basis in 8.3 transfers

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 6/4/14, 4:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Matthew Kaufman
>>
>> ps. I'd also note that "policy that expresses the general intent of the community" may in fact *be* policy that lets post-runout transfers be performed without a needs test, as "the community" consists of a lot more than "Owen”.
> Indeed, it does. However, many people have also repeatedly stood up in defense of needs basis, so singling me out as if I am the lone supporter of preserving needs basis is as specious as many of your other arguments.
>

Wasn't to single you out, but was meant to call attention to an argument 
that says "in addition to it being how I feel, that's what the community 
wants [as proven by the existence of current policy]" But we should be 
clear... the policy as written in the PPML today may or may not be 
"policy that expresses the general intent of the community".

In fact, I would argue that it isn't.

For starters, most of "the community" isn't participating in the PDP at all.

And secondly, for a policy that the community likes, we sure have a lot 
of fairly significant changes queued up.

In summary, I don't think it is appropriate to back up any argument for 
or against a policy change with "but that's what the current policy 
says, therefore everyone else already agrees with me".

Matthew Kaufman