Hello all,
The objective of this policy proposal is to modify the PDP in a way specific to global policies. Global Policies (which, by definition, affect IANA), may not take effect until they have gained consensus in all five regions. In the case where RIPE adopts a global policy proposal but the proposal later changes in another region, this modification would make it explicit that RIPE may consider the changed text despite having already adopted an earlier text. Since RIPE 60, it's become clear to me that this is a more complex proposition than it looks. As I said at the meeting, the current Global Policy Development Process is very good at doing one thing: where a policy has consensus in all five regions, it is very good at determining this. By changing the RIPE PDP to try to make it easier to reach consensus where it does not yet exist, a number of complexities are introduced. In particular, on this list there have already been some questions about the cases enumerated where a GPP might not reach consensus. I think now that by changing the PDP in this way, we would have to enumerate many such cases, at various points of the PDP, and I fear we would not successfully cover them all. So while the goal is a laudable one, as I said at RIPE 60, I am not satisfied that this is an elegant way to solve it. The problem is not urgent, and we already have a way to deal with such a problem when it arises. So I do not think there is much to be gained by pushing forward in this way. On this basis, I would like to withdraw this proposal and, as suggested at RIPE 60, consider more generic alternatives. Best regards, Dave -- Dave Wilson, Senior Network Engineer HEAnet Limited, Ireland's Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1 Registered in Ireland, no 275301 tel: +353-1-660 9040 fax: +353-1-660 3666 web: http://www.heanet.ie/ Calendar & PGP: http://people.heanet.ie/~davew/