[address-policy-wg] Re: RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure

Gert and all,

  Judging requests is not necessarily a bad thing, but doing so can quickly
become a very bad thing unless there is a set of procedures and/or
policies that are enforceable and will dictate the limitations and specifics
of such judgments.

Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:15:20PM +0100, Sascha Lenz wrote:
> > ==> I'd prefer more open "Criteria". We have no real IPv4 shortage,
> >     i don't see why we need to restrict this that much once again.
> >     RIPE hostmasters should be able to recognize a "good reason", even
> >     if there's no keyword in it they can check against a certain policy.
>
> It's not that easy.  *If* they start "judging" requests, they also start
> asking lots of additional questions (to understand the background), and
> then people will again start complaining "the hostmasters are so
> annoying with all these questions! why do I need to send in an IPv6
> network diagram, I just want addresses!"...
>
> This is why I'm aiming for a very specific "checklist".  No doubts, no
> discussions.
>
> Gert Doering
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