Hi, Ondřej. Apologies for any confusion; I received two copies of this message and replied already to what looked like a private, off-list message. On 9 Feb 2021, at 14:08, Ondřej Surý wrote:

also with my Arbiter hat on, this seems like quite widening the area that RIPE Arbiters would have to cover. I don't think that enlisting the Arbiters to cover the Appeals is something that could be done with their consent.

Agreed. Any change to the mandate of the RIPE NCC Arbiters could only be by consent. Indeed, I think that even to seek such consent from existing Arbiters would be to exercise undue pressure. If the RIPE Community were to decide to set up some kind of “RIPE PDP Appeal Panel”, I think that this would have to be formally quite separate from the RIPE NCC Panel of Arbiters. I don’t see any reason in principle not to allow anyone who might wish to volunteer for both panels do do so. I hope this reassures you. Niall