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

This is perhaps more wordsmithing rather than a fundamental comment on
the proposal, which sounds like A Good Thing.

(1):
> If the global policy proposal does not reach consensus or a 
> substantial change is made on the proposal in one (or more) of the 
> other RIR communities after the proposal was put in "Accepted pending
> consensus in other RIR communities" in RIPE, all the RIPE WG Chairs 
> as a group will determine how to proceed. They can decide to withdraw
> the proposal or send it back to one of the previous phases of the 
> RIPE PDP with or without a new version of the proposal.

(2):
> If the global policy proposal fails to receive acceptance at the end
> of the global policy development process that is evaluated by the ASO
> Address Council (can be due to having substantial differences in the
> proposed text in different RIR communities or due to that the
> proposal failed to reach consensus in one of the RIR communities)
> then the proposal will be withdrawn automatically in RIPE too. The
> RIPE NCC will make the necessary announcements.

Is the second of these paragraphs needed?  (Alternatively, is the first
one needed?)  They appear to cover similar events, so for clarity
shouldn't it either be up to the WG chairs 'collective' or the output of
the ASO AC?

(As an aside, I'd remove 'all' from the first paragraph...)

Cheers,
Rob

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