On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:15:19PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:

2.2. re-open the discussion about resource certification at half-cock,
which will lead to a re-run of the same arguments put forward for 2008-08.
The intention of the policy change here is to fix a policy bug, and it
would be a shame to have it ending up as an unnecessary re-hash of 2008-08.

Damn. I never looked at it from that angle. Nick is right, this creates
RPKI policy by the back-door.

The easiest and simplest thing would be to drop the sentence completely, at
which point the de-facto RIPE NCC procedures concerning certification will
apply.  If this seems like a sensible and pragmatic approach to others, I
can oblige from the policy proposal point of view.  Or someone else can, if
they want.

In light of the above, this is eminently the most sensible solution.