[arin-ppml] Section 6.5.9 Community Network Allocations - Community Input for NRPM Working Group

[Dale W. Carder]

Thus spake Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML (arin-ppml at arin.net) on Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 12:23:31PM -0800:
> I don’t favor striking the first paragraph. While the topics are out of scope for policy, they provide a good record of the rationale behind this otherwise strange carveout. Losing the rationale would likely eventually lead to losing track of why the policy exists, potentially resulting in loss of the policy.

Good point.  Though, would it make sense to move/add any additional context
into 2.11 to clarify that intent?

Dale

> > On Dec 18, 2023, at 11:25, Matthew Wilder via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello community members,
> > 
> > Thank you to everyone who has provided inputs for the working group's consideration with regard to Section 6 policies. There have been great discussions that we as a working group (and Advisory Council more broadly) are taking note of.
> > 
> > In the final Section 6 topic that the NRPM Working Group wishes to bring to the community's attention, we will be looking at 6.5.9 Community Network Allocations.
> > 
> > We wonder if it might be beneficial to strike the entire first paragraph, which provides some context which is somewhat beyond the scope of policy (for instance mentioning the budgets of community networks). The material bits of policy do not appear to reside in that paragraph, and this paragraph reads to us more like a problem statement rather than policy.
> > 
> > Additionally we would like to suggest the capitalization of all instances of "Community Networks" in the entire section and its subsections to properly reference the definition of this term found in section 2.
> > 
> > We very much appreciate your consideration and any feedback you have to these suggestions as we measure what actions we might take to improve Section 6.