[address-policy-wg] 2012-05 New Draft and Impact Analysis Documents Published (Transparency in Address Block Transfers)

* Milton L Mueller

> If you need this information to confirm your "belief" that this info
> can be extracted from existing stats file, a reasonable person would
> conclude that maybe we should make the information available in the
> format suggested by 2012-05.

The format suggested by 2012-05 is fine by me. I would prefer something
that is easily parsed by a script, for example something inspired by the
delegated-ripencc-extended format:

; network|length|date|sourceLIR|destinationLIR
192.0.2.0|256|20121104|no.anderson|us.mueller

> In other words, you want to see everything that 2012-05 would allow anyone to see.

Yes, I do strongly support the notion that the above information should
be made available to the community by the NCC.

> A reasonable person would interpret this as support for 2012-05.

As noted above, I do indeed support 2012-05's goal of making this
information available to the community.

However, my earlier objection to the proposal is only relating to how
this is accomplished, and whether or not is is really necessary to add
even more text to an already excessively long and complicated policy
document. The way I see it, if the NCC publishes the information
voluntarily, compelling them through policy anyway amounts to redundant
micromanagement.

The NCC's impact analysis seemed to address this concern, by saying,
essentially: «We are willing to publish the details requested, somebody
just have to ask us first».

So I asked. To my surprise, I got a negative answer.

In light of that, it would seem that we do need to compel the NCC to
publish the information after all. Hence, I do support 2012-05.

That said, if the NCC at a later point in the PDP starts publishing the
information voluntarily, I withdraw my support of the proposal and
instead object to it, on the grounds that it will be redundant and only
serve to further bloat the policy text.

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/