[BULK] Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Draft Document Published (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

> My comment was not personal. It was intended to try and 
> contain the sort of mobius discussion we have seen on the 
> PPML list, before it started on this list too.

Mobius discussions are created when people don't take the time
to read and understand each other's messages. This happens more
often on the ARIN list because there are more people who don't
really understand what ARIN, many of them small business owners.
Also, there is the whole American tendency to see things in
terms of black and white, Republican and Democrat, which makes
it much harder to converge a discussion towards consensus.
In general, the APWG list does not suffer from these problems.

> Anybody that wishes to take expert legal advice is of course
> free to do so at any time.

Of course. But how does the RIPE community as a whole get expert
legal advice prior to the board's review of policy? In other words
a proactive type of advice rather than a reactive cover-your-behind
type of legal review.

Perhaps if we ask for such advice on the list, then the meeting 
organizers might take the time to find a legal expert who can
make a presentation at a future RIPE meeting. That way everybody
can benefit from the information.

--Michael Dillon