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

[Andrew Dul]

On 10/27/2023 1:24 PM, John Curran wrote:
>
>> 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?

Bill,

Its a reasonable restriction from my perspective and also one that 
likely brings policies on to the public mailing list sooner.   Which 
could be a benefit.  If you feel its worth considering after this 
discussion please put it in via the ACSP process as that is the formal 
method now for changes to the PDP to be considered for future revisions.

https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/process/


Thanks,

Andrew


> 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
>
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