Hi, On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:03:51PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 22/09/2013 18:52, Gert Doering wrote:
(Though I'm starting to get tempted to request full disclosure of anyone who is directly affiliated with a regional registry, as when judging consensus, I'm going to look very closely at contributions from RIR employees, board members, etc. from different regions that operate in a very different situation as far as remaining IPv4 address space is concerned.)
People who have relationships with other RIRs are part of the RIPE Community, so I don't think there are any formal grounds to dismiss their opinions when evaluating consensus.
Please don't misunderstand me. I do not want to dismiss contributions from other RIRs' staff members, AC advisory boards, etc - to the contrary, looking at our policy proposals from the outside might bring aspects into view that we've just overlooked, and policy expertise coming from other backgrounds is welcome. So if the above paragraph hinted at "I will ignore these comments", it wasn't meant that way. OTOH, when it turns out that someone has a background in policy making elsewhere, maybe my expectations on the quality of their reasoning for rejecting one of our policy proposal would be a tad higher... judging rough consensus is always subjective to some extent. Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279