On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Sascha Luck [ml] <apwg@c4inet.net> wrote:
What is missing here is that the RIPE NCC, and its members, are bound by the policies that RIPE comes up with. In reality, this means that < 10 people on a mailing list (some of whom may or may not be sockpuppets) decide how ~12,000 members have to deal with the RIPE NCC.
You may then be surprised to know how few people were involved in "deciding" what the Internet turned out to be, for each single point in time where an RFC became a standard. That's how it works, and currently, noone has proposed a better way of doing it. However, you can of course come up with a proposal, based on your own criticism of how these processes are. I don't quite see how that is on topic for the address policy working group, though, as it's not an address policy, but a meta policy which has ramifications far beyond this working group. -- Jan