Jim and all, Anyone with half a brain and only a bit of experiance know that policy making almost always favors large orgs. significantly. Jim Reid wrote:
On 25 Jul 2009, at 17:44, Greg wrote:
You can only see how fast "large organization friendly" proposals go through and are accepted - this is just my personal view :) See the multiple /24 allocations for cTLDs that just got accepted.
It's not clear what point, if any, you're making here.
The recent change to provide space to TLDs for anycasting was discussed on this list. Everyone had a chance to contribute to that policy development. Many did. Including some like me who represent no large organisation or even an LIR. The consensus was that these allocations would be a Good Thing for the Internet, not just the TLD operators who would get the space. Everybody and everything using the Internet benefits if the DNS infrastructure for things like TLDs is made more robust by anycasting, there's not just a small number of DNS hosting companies offering commercial anycast services, etc, etc.
I fail to understand why you'd characterise this policy as being "large organisation friendly". It's clearly for the benefit of everyone using the Internet. Oh and most TLD registries are not large organisations. The biggest of them have turnover and staffing equivalent to a modest ISP. My guess is the TLD registries that are NCC members will probably be in the small membership category because, comparitively speaking, they don't need or use a lot of numbering resources.
Now it may be that large organisations are better placed than small ones to participate in policy discussions or attend RIPE meetings. That's just a a fact of life. However it doesn't mean policy-making is dominated by those large organisations. The barrier for participation in policy discussions could hardly be any lower: a mail/web client and some understanding of English. Your complaint, if it is indeed a complaint, seems to be a bit like moaning about the government when you've not even bothered to vote.
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