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

Dear all,

thank you Erik for providing this helpful summary - although I do not think
I was quite as indefinite in my concerns as you put in your summary :)

I'll keep it simple and straightforward this time to prevent any confusion.

1) There is no need to restructure our set of policies based on the
intention of this proposed policy. The intended simplification and
abbreviation from the first drafts has been all but removed in this version
to fix the holes that the simplification created.

2) That being said, I do support the intended direction of this policy
proposal, but instead of creating a new separate document and ripping parts
out of existing documents, I'd much prefer the change to be reflected in
the existing set of documents, even if that means multiple documents having
near-identical pieces of text. This is policy, not a database design.

3) A discussion is needed (and I don't even know where that discussion
belongs, I'll leave that up to the RIPE chair to decide) on the structure
of our set of policies, with the goal of increasing accessibility,
transparency and reducing the risk of potential gaps, conflicts and
duplicates.

4) Only after a conclusion of the discussion under 3) we should start
entertaining policy proposals that change the nature of current policy
structure.

Kind regards,

Remco
Private Internet Citizen

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:31 PM Erik Bais <ebais at a2b-internet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As we are almost at the end of the current phase (after today. ) I would
> like to ask the AP-WG Chairs if they agree to add at least 2 weeks
> additional time to the discussion time to make sure that all pros and cons
> are discussed.
>
> Currently we are looking at an objection from Remco v. Mook ( with no hats
> )
> that there might be some future issue on similar policy changes that might
> provide a policy issue as the previous version of the draft had.
>
> While I understand his line of thinking, I don’t think that we give the
> legal team enough credit to spot future issues similar as the one in the
> past draft.. I like to think there is a learning curve …
> And I will also invite Remco to keep reading future policy proposals from
> myself and others to make sure that there aren’t any un-intentional issues
> that might be introduced in future policy.
>
> Having said that, he also stated that there is currently nothing wrong with
> the version at the table.
>
> On the final remark of Remco, if we need to see if we need to review the
> actual current structure of the policies.. I agree and I would like to have
> a good discussion on that.
> But that is to me a discussion outside the scope of this policy proposal.
>
> On the suggestion of Remco and second by Tore (also with no hats), Tore
> wrote :
>
> > Remco suggested adding references to the new policy document in lieu of
> > the removed sections in ripe-638, ripe-649, and ripe-655. I would not
> > object to that.
>
> This was later also agreed to by a (+1) from Sascha Luck (also without any
> hats), Guy Chilton (Again .. no hats..)
>
> And if we agree that the blunt removal of the transfer text in the current
> affected policies and having a single transfer document isn't clear enough,
> I'm not against adding a reference to the new proposed transfer policy
> document.
>
> The only response opposing to the current structure is Peter Koch.
>
> Peter stated that he is :
> > "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)."
>
> And I agree partially with him. Doing things with caution is something that
> we are all part of here.. And I think that we have proven that we are very
> careful on making certain changes.
> The biggest change here is indeed the editorial one, however that is to
> avoid in doing large changes while also doing editorial changes .. it was
> clear to everyone that the editorial changes was desired by the majority of
> the community when the initial changes / transfer policy text was written
> into the policies.. and this was the 'clean-up and stream-line action.'
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm reading this that Peter could live with the suggestion done by Remco
> for
> the references.. if we are going that route..
> And from what I've heard, a change like Remco suggested, would not require
> a
> complete rehash into the PDP or redoing any phases again.
>
> I hope that with the current summary I have given a quick view of where I
> think we are ... And if Sander and Gert don't mind, I would like to ask to
> extend the discussion period for 2 weeks to allow for additional comments
> on
> this email and perhaps other insights.
>
> Regards,
> Erik Bais
> Author of 2015-04 ... aka ...  The mad hatter ...
>
>
>
>
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