Hi Nurani, On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Nurani Nimpuno wrote:
On 13 May 2020, at 20:12, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
but nothing in the PDP says "a NCC employee is not allowed to have an opinion on policy and voice that". The PDP is quite clear here.
I think more important than "is someone with an opinion about policy a NCC employee or not" is "be very *transparent* in policy making???
I disagree with that assessment.
If you want to claim that the policy process is truly community driven and you want to avoid any accusations of it being controlled by those who allocate the IP resources, then this principle sits at the heart of our community values.
Participation by "the wider RIPE community" hasn't been as overwhelming as one could hope for. As a second-best pick, I go for "informed input from people with experience in the field, made transparent to everyone interested in what's happening". So, yes, I think input from RIR staff can be very valuable to policy building - the community is watching, and I fully trust the community to call "STOP!" if something questionable is proposed. If we do think, as RIPE community, that RIR employees should not be permitted to participate in policy making, we need to adjust the PDP to actually say so. Gert Doering -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279