[address-policy-wg] Consensus after Last Call on 2014-01 (Abandoning the Minimum Allocation Size for IPv4)

Hello working group,

As per the RIPE PDP in ripe-614 the decision whether a proposal has reached consensus is now done by the working group chairs of the WG that discussed the proposal. We will give an overview of what occurred in the working group and explain how we came to our conclusions based on that.

When this proposal went from Review phase to Last Call this was based on this analysis by the working group chairs:

> During the discussion phase there was already general support for this policy proposal. Some people asked for the minimum size of sub-allocations too be included in this policy proposal as well. This was done in version 2 of the proposal text.
> 
> After going to the review phase the feedback was all positive, with 8 people explicitly stating their support:
> - Tore Anderson
> - Jan Ingvoldstad
> - Piotr Strzyzewski
> - Sascha Luck
> - Jens Ott
> - George Giannousopoulos
> - Andreas Larsen
> - Sebastian Wiesinger
> 
> The announcement of the start of the review phase was sent out on the 15th of May, and all messages indicating support came in immediately after. Since then the mailing list has been quiet about 2014-01, which we see as a sign of consensus.

During Last Call four more people stated their clear support (on 16 and 17 June)

- Elvis Daniel Velea (repeated his support from the discussion phase)
- Erik Bais (repeated his support from the discussion phase)
- Janos Zsako (repeated his support from the discussion phase)
- Daniel Stolpe

There were no other postings during Last Calls.

Based on the comments received in review and last call phase, we have decided that consensus has indeed been reached. We therefore ask the RIPE NCC to implement this policy.

If you disagree with this decision please contact the working group chairs (preferably on this public mailing list and otherwise by sending mail to apwg-chairs at ripe.net). Should that not resolve the problem then you can appeal to the WG chairs collective (as per section 4 of ripe-614).

Your working group chairs,
Gert Döring and Sander Steffann