[address-policy-wg] consensus and 2011-02

On 10 Dec 2011, at 08:13, Turchanyi Geza wrote:

> However, I am not alone. I remember people from Norvege, Germany,  
> Ukraine,
> etc, sharing the concerns or even expressing better than I did.

Yes, though they seem to be a lot quieter now.

> Perhaps also you!

Perhaps. :-) FWIW I am uncomfortable with this proposal, but not  
enough to oppose the general consensus view. Provided the NCC monitor  
the situation well, that should give us plenty of warning and time to  
react if Bad Things start to happen. Famous last words...

We should remember that policies do not have to be perfect or live  
forever. They can always be changed or killed later. Whenever  
circumstances change, so should our policies. It may well be better to  
go with a less than perfect policy today (so stuff can get done) than  
hope the perfect policy might emerge tomorrow (and nothing gets done  
until that happens). ie First develop something that's "good enough"  
and then amend it in light of actual experience.

> what about these "PI+1 activists"?

This is always a problem. One way or another we're all proponents of  
free beer. [Economists call things like free beer "externalities": you  
push your costs and hassles elsewhere so somebody else pays for them.]  
We just have to live with this. Externalities are inherent to almost  
every system, not just RIPE policy making.