On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:15:01AM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
Well IMO, any debate lasting *that* long cannot be called "proper". A more honest description might be "ivory-towered" or "defective". There is something fundamentally wrong if we can't get a policy done in 3 years(!) and then have what appeared to be a consensus come off the rails at the very last moment. We, the RIPE community, should hang our heads in shame. Imagine the derision we'd rightly heap on other policy- making bodies if they had produced this outcome. And we all know a few of them.
I have to agree with that but IMO it is because, with some proposals, a long time passes between any updates/any movement and people simply forget about them - after all, very few do policy development as a full-time job... Maybe it would be worthwile discussing ways to keep the PDP flowing more smoothly -unless, of course, it becomes irrelevant, cf my post above. rgds, Sascha Luck