Hi Remco, On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 01:08:03PM +0000, remco van mook wrote:
While I applaud your willingness to provide a platform to any and all policy proposal regardless of its merit, I must now strongly encourage you to start reconsidering this approach or to start actively moderating discussions on this mailing list.
As much as I value your wisdom and contributions, *this* we totally cannot do - that is, decide "by order of the chair" which proposals have merit or not, or moderate the list (except in extreme cases). We do our best to focus the discussions and do call people to order if needed - OTOH, there are so many aspects to this particular topic (like: is there a real problem with IPv6 in Iran or not?) that it's not easy to declare something to be totally off-topic - and in particular, the argument "just stop wasting all our time on IPv4!" has been brought up before, and I can well see the merits of *this*. So, what do you want us to do? Disallow any discussions that touch IPv4, or have operational / monetary impact on people's networks? This would harm our open process much more than the occasional discussion that strays quite far from the original topic. (But anyway - Remco is right of course that some of the "contributions" to this discussions are *so* totally off-topic that even a very liberal interpretation won't find any useful content in there - like, signature flames going to the whole list - so, please refrain from adding extra noise to the discussion. You know who you are...) Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279