[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Clean up)

On 02/08/2013 13:47, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Could RIPE NCC chime in on if such a small change with no real world
> implications would allow for reduced, or no, re-evaluations?

in the year 540ad, St. Benedict wrote in his rule of monastic life
"credimus eminam vini per singulos sufficere per diem", which roughly
translates as "we believe that a hemina of wine daily is sufficient for
each monk".  Unfortunately he neglected to write down how much a hemina of
wine actually was.  The consequence of not defining this term was 1500
years of heated theological debate in the Benedictine order.

It was a salutary lesson in being careful to provide a reasonable
definition of any lofty goals which might end up as policy.

Nick