Hi, On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:16:14PM -0700, David Kessens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:41:06PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
OTOH, there's an ongoing policy change proposal to drop the 200-customer rule. Please read up the specifics of the proposal in the archive, and voice your opinion...
We have been discussing this proposal now for years.
Indeed, but the discussion always died down after a while, and nobody did everything necessary to make it an actual policy change. I think one of the reasons for that was that the RIPE policy process just wasn't formal enough, to say "*this* is the timeline, we make a decision *now*" - which should be easier now, with the new formalized policy process. OTOH...
What is it that is needed to get a decision made regarding rejection or approval of this proposal?
... I am not sure whether I can see any sort of consensus yet. We have very loud voices that oppose the change, other voices want much more than that, and a number of people agree with it. If I do some sort of "averaging", the "average opionion" from this could be "yes, go for it", but basically it comes down to "what's our definition of consensus" now. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71007 (66629) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234