In message <528E1E7B.60000@inex.ie>, at 14:53:47 on Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> writes

Where is the "running code" when it come to (eg) denying IXPs the right to
have provider-independent IPv6 addresses (as was the case for some
considerable time).

that particular policy bug was fixed in the summer of 2001.  In the 12.5
years since then, I think we can reasonably claim that the RIPE community
has built up a vibrant interest in actively managing its addressing
policies using bottom up principals.

And I don't dispute that for a moment.

Currently I'm particularly interested in getting the "underbottom" (that's users and their representatives, rather than typically the layer above, their connectivity suppliers) more involved in that process. It's a bit like "civil society, but without the anticensorship flavour".
--
Roland Perry