[address-policy-wg] 2023-04 Review Phase (Add AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status for IPv4 PA assignments)

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 1:11 PM Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>

Hi Tore,

skipping your blatant misconception of what constitutes a "conspiracy
theory" ...


> > Continously appealing to RIPE NCC as the authority of policy and
> > policy interpretation is not a good thing.
>
> The RIPE NCC is the secretariat of the RIPE Community and is delegated
> the task of implementing and enforcing the RIPE Community policies, as
> well as to providing training to the LIRs on how to operationalise said
> policies. If that is not an authority worth paying attention to, I do
> not know what is.
>
> After all, any LIR which prefers the RIPE NCC interpretation of the
> policy in this regard is may simply adhere to it and act accordingly,
> and this is commonly done today. Thus the RIPE NCC's interpretation of
> the policy – mistaken or not – ends up becoming the (de facto) way the
> policy is implemented anyway.
>

This statement basically renders the point of a policy working group moot.

-- 
Jan
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