[arin-ppml] Should we disallow an AC member from submitting a policy proposal?

[John Curran]

> On Oct 27, 2023, at 2:01 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 9:28 AM Andrew Dul <andrew.dul at quark.net> wrote:
>> Should we disallow an AC member from submitting a policy proposal?
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> You got me thinking about this. There might be a useful change to the
> process here. Not disallowed, but: before an AC member can introduce a
> policy proposal, require them to post the problem statement (without a
> policy proposal) to the PPML and solicit feedback for, say, two weeks.
> Make that the only hard restriction on an AC member proposing policy
> that is not faced by the general public.
> 
> What do you think?

As an relevant side-note, I will observe that there was discussion during the PDP update 
of requiring that _all_ policy proposals initially start solely as a problem statement, and 
only after that problem statement had been discussed by the community would work 
on actual policy proposal text commence. 

That approach was deemed too restrictive, as sometime as a change to policy text is so
straightforward that there was no reason to deprive the community of clear policy change
text upfront.  I do not know know if the same is the case for your proposed hobbling of the 
ARIN AC members, but provide it as related background.

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers