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On 7 Sep 2021, at 4:04 PM, Chris Woodfield <<a href="mailto:chris@semihuman.com" class="">chris@semihuman.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">For the record, ARIN’s PDP does explicitly empower the Board to reject or remand a Recommended Draft Policy that has reached community consensus: <a href="https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/#8-board-of-trustees-review" class="">https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/#8-board-of-trustees-review</a> This
is rare, but it has happened, with ARIN-2017-12 being the most recent example from my memory:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2018-October/032593.html" class="">https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2018-October/032593.html</a> </div>
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<div class="">Indeed. It’s worth remembering that “remand” means exactly that - the Board sent it back to the ARIN AC for some reason - further work, clarification, etc. – with the goal of making sure that ARIN moves ahead on solid policy recommendations.
It is not a rejection of recommended policy from the ARIN AC (I actually cannot recall the Board ever rejecting an ARIN AC policy recommendation - I don’t think it’s ever happened but will check archives shortly to be certain.) </div>
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<div class="">For example, the circumstances of ARIN-2017-12 wasn’t the Board “rejecting” policy, but rather remanding it while noting that there was different possible implementations of the policy goal with significantly different costs to the organization
and different impacts to the community. In the end the ARIN AC revised the policy for clarity and ended up with a better policy that was promptly adopted. </div>
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<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
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<div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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