[address-policy-wg] 2010-03 New Policy Proposal (Global Policy State in RIPE PDP)

Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
> PDP Number: 2010-03
> Global Policy State in RIPE PDP

The aim of this proposal seems to be worthwhile but I have a question
and a note of caution.

The question is that reading through the rationale I came across this
statement

"The benefits are that the RIPE community may speedily adopt a global
policy proposal if it wishes, and that doing so will not delay the
process of establishing consensus if further modifications are requested
in other RIR communities."

I can't see how the addition of an extra holding state can allow the
policy to be adopted. Probably I'm confused, but surely this proposal
just allows a proposal to be held in the new proposed state until all
regions are in step. It won't allow the policy to be adopted any earlier?

The note of caution is that there is no timeout on this state so we
potentially have a policy held here for ever.

Nigel