Steve, On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:18:18PM +0100, Steve Walker wrote:
We would like to ask you to suspend the proposed policy until we have had a chance to ask the RIPE community for approval.
Please don't!
Agreed!!! I understand the need to ensure complete consensus regarding allocation, but *please* can we aim for a temporary work around to allow us to get an allocation using the existing document.
We could review the interim allocations once the consensus is finally reached, and supply any new information then _if_ needed. But as Robert says, this has gone on far too long already!
Please don't get us wrong. We are not aiming for complete consensus. The problem that we had was that we didn't had a final proposal submitted to the mailing list. We did have a draft and lot's of comments. What we usualy do in this kind of situations is that RIPE NCC submits a final proposal to the workinggroup that incorporates the comments. The working group then gets a final chance to voice major objections, and if no major problems are uncovered, the policy becomes effective and gets published as a RIPE document (there is a RIPE document for the request form but no document that describes the actual policy on how you will be judged when you submit a request). The problem this time was that there was no final proposal on the list with the actual policy and I didn't see a RIPE document either. We didn't feel that this is a good way to introduce new policy. We already asked for a slot on the next RIPE meeting for closure on this topic. However, we have heard your comments loud and clear :-) so we are working with the RIPE NCC to get a final proposal out much quicker and get approval from the community by asking for approval on the mailing list before the next meeting. I hope that addresses your concerns. David K. ---