Dear address-policy-wg, Nigel, On 07/08/2011 03:11 PM, Nigel Titley wrote:
That is what you are seeing here, no more and no less. It is precisely because of this light touch that we have limited our comments to the fact that we feel some unease about the policy but feel that it is not our place to comment further but that we have confidence that the community will do the right thing. Further comments would be done as individuals, as usual.
This is also precisely why I find this particular comment unnecessary and confusing, especially to members of the community which are not involved in the entire scope of discussion on the mailing lists, and instead evaluate policy proposals and their impact on their networks at 'face value' based on the content of the proposals themselves. If the board has specific operational or fiscal concerns, or even a formal board opinion, it would be a disservice to the policy process *not* to include them for consideration by the community. However, the board is highly regarded and respected by the community, which is exactly why I find a generic "we are not feeling it" remark to be inappropriate, and feel it should have instead been omitted completely in favor of individual comments on the mailing list, or included as a more specific and concrete set of concerns providing a constructive contribution to the community's ability to evaluate the impact of the proposal. -- Respectfully yours, David Monosov