[address-policy-wg] 2015-04 New Draft Documents and Impact Analysis Published (RIPE Resource Transfer Policies)

On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 07:00:53PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

>  [X] I think we should be organizing this differently, and totally not 
>      group the policy documents "by activity" but "by resource" (= transfer
>      policy section in the IPv4, IPv6 and AS number policy documents)

while I understand the desire, I believe there are better ways to "explain"
things to the audience than re-grouping part of the policy documents.
A non-normative introductory text on the NCC's website would be one such
better way.  Generally I'm always nervous when policy/legislation is
"streamlined" by "just editorial changes", and also recent experience here
would suggest extreme caution.  Things get complicated when they are
taken out of their respective context (tempus and locus).

At least, the work is incomplete as proposed now, simply because the
affected policies will have to be re-published with a new number and timestamp,
so the (outdated) references will have to be adjusted (this includes
evaluation and thus is more than a simple editorial change) and now
obsolete text ought to be dealt with accordingly. The necessity to
add normative references to a new omnibus document has already been mentioned.

-Peter