Dear working group, In the beginning there was no documented process of making policy. At some point I started outlining the process in http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/lir/howto_develop.html The experience since then is that a couple of elements should be added to this - not necessarily to make a biger or more complicated process, but with the incentive to make the process more open and more transparent. * Proposals should be circulated in writing to the mailinglist in advance of the meetings. Currently we have started calling for contributions and requestion proposals. * There should be detailed technical discussion on the mailinglist before a proposal can be adapted * All policies should be published as RIPE documents * All RIPE documents setting new policies should be published as drafts before becoming final -hph