On 30/05/11 14:04, Emilio Madaio wrote:
At RIPE 59 in Lisbon in October 2009, the RIPE NCC announced that it would undertake a project to make various RIPE policy documents easier to understand without changing the meaning of the text.
As already announced, the latest draft document produced according to the project is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/
This is the merger of the three policy documents:
-ripe-512 "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy" -ripe-451 "IPv6 Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points" -ripe-233 "IPv6 Addresses for Internet Root Servers in the RIPE Region"
The announcement of the publication of this new draft is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2011/msg00243....
The Address Policy Working Group co-Chairs decided to extend the review period until 13 June 2011 to allow the community more time to give their feedback.
This is a significantly ambitious project. Simply merging existing documents is already a challenge. Transforming the output in the same operation "to make [it] easier to understand without changing the meaning of the text" augments that challenge. I believe that the routine work needed to support this review has not yet been performed by the RIPE NCC, and that the proposed deadline, even though already extended, is unrealistic. Specifically, the version of the change proposal which juxtaposes current and proposed text does not show from which of the three source documents the text presented as "current" is taken. Resolving the source references appears to have been left implicitly as an exercise for the reader. I expect that this will surely discourage engagement in the review process. Best regards Niall O'Reilly