At 04:35 AM 10/8/2002, Randy Bush wrote:
Its also interesting to note that at least one RIR hasn't really put this policy issue to its members as a propsed policy. Really good for bottom up processes :|
some of the RIRs seem have a tradition of making policy in the back room and voting on engineering in group face-to-face meetings with very random proposals which almost all get voted 'yes'.
needless to say, but i'll say it anyway, for an ietfer this seems ill-considered.
John, Randy, Please name horse/rider and cite chapter/verse, *then* we can discuss more meaningfully. For the RIPE NCC my impression is, that the policy process is suffering from *too much* confidence of the community in the RIR rather than too little. This tends to make all parties complacent and mistakes can happen. However this needs to be put into perspective: too much confience is a problem that is *orders of magnitude* less grave than no confidence, which is ICANN's problem. Daniel