Hi, On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:53:51PM +0100, mark.h.mcfadden@bt.com wrote:
I hope you're not suggesting that ETNO members can't choose to talk about RIPE policy matters when they get together.
Certainly not.
Of course they can.
Yes.
And, when they do, if they come to a common understanding and publish that as input to the RIPE APWG, the chair should welcome that input. Picking and choosing which input the chair finds acceptable is not an appropriate way to form policy.
Well. I welcome all input from all participants on the mailing list (and off-list, of course). And of course I cannot speak for "all readers of the mailing list". But still, as the chair, I can take the liberty to point out approaches that make the process of finding a compromise *for the common goal of proper Internet resource stewardship* much more awkward than necessary. Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 128645 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279