[address-policy-wg] 2014-03 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (Remove Multihoming Requirement for AS Number Assignments)

On 13/01/2015 14:46, Gert Doering wrote:
> So your suggestion would be to stall this proposal until we know what 
> comes out of the next AGM, and then see if we need the clause in
> question at all, anymore?

yes, that was my suggestion.  The current configuration is stable, so there
are no pressing operational reasons to change things in a hurry.  If we're
going to change, we need to do that's best for N years down the road, not
what's best for a couple of months during 2015.

> What if the AGM decides to bring back a yearly recurring charge for
> ASNs, we loosen up our policy, the AGM decides to remove the charge once
> again,

from previous email:

>> As a more general issue, we need to accept as a community that there
>> is a crossover between RIPE Community policy and RIPE NCC membership
>> policy, and that this is one of those intersections.

Both the RIPE NCC membership and the AP working group tend to end up with
reasonable policies.  I'm pretty confident that this isn't going to change
any time soon.

Nick