[arin-ppml] AC candidates

[William Herrin]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 9:28 AM Andrew Dul <andrew.dul at quark.net> wrote:
> On 10/26/2023 9:20 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> > It plummeted after the Board changed the AC's role from shepherding
> > policy proposals to developing policy proposals.
>
> I realize that might be a distinction with out a difference, but I
> wanted to point it out.

Shepherds guide folks through process. They don't edit proposals.
Today's AC does much more of the latter than the former.


>  From a policy development perspective the AC's role has not changed
> significantly in more than a decade.

I can still be sore about changes made a decade ago.


> Should we disallow an AC member from submitting a policy proposal?

I don't think that's the problem. The AC members are some of the best
informed folks around. It would be a waste to be unable to leverage
their ideas. The problem is the next step where they get together and
edit them privately. This is inherently exclusionary of everybody else
and IMO is uncorrectable as long as the AC has the unilateral power to
edit an author's proposal.

What should be disallowed to AC members is:

1. Editing proposals, except by the individual who authored it (which
if an AC member should be only that individual).

2. Private debate about proposals between AC members. Restrict the AC
meetings to voting on proposals without debate or advocacy. Require
the discussion and debate to happen on PPML.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


-- 
William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
https://bill.herrin.us/