[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-4: Internet Exchange Point Definition

[Martin Hannigan]

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 21:41 Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

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3) I think Autonomous System should probably be capitalized, since we're
>> referring to a specific technical definition.
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> In that form "autonomous systems" should remain lowercase because it is a
> general term and not a proper noun.
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> Corner case. Often in legal texts, terms which have a specific definition
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Responding mainly since I enjoy document structure:

Its called defined term. Totally agree. AFAIK, theres no such defined term
in this policy which is limited to the section number? There an ASN acronym
definition in the header.  But ASN would be improper in this context.

I’m pleased we all seem to mainly agree and we’re refining form.

HTH,

-M<



> I’m OK either way in this case unless we are seeking to be certain that
> the use here is mapped specifically to an AS definition in section 2 of the
> NRPM (if there is one, I haven’t looked).
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> The policy looks fine as it is, however let's see what the commentary on
> the 4.4 rewrite looks like to ensure they line up properly and as the
> community expects it will.
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> I think ethernet should be removed from both.
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> Owen
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