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

Hi Jan,

On 11/01/24 13:27, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 1:11 PM Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:
>
>     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.

Not at all. Any working group member who is of the opinion that the RIPE 
NCC is interpreting a RIPE Community policy incorrectly, is free to at 
any point submit a policy proposal that clarifies the allegedly 
misinterpreted policy text with the aim to make the RIPE NCC change its 
procedures accordingly.

The RIPE NCC's Impact Analysis will then reveal whether or not the 
proposed new policy text does attain its goal and that the RIPE NCC will 
change its procedures as desired, should the proposal pass.

Finally, the proposal will need to reach (rough) consensus in order to 
confirm that the RIPE Community does indeed concur with the proposer's 
opinion that the old policy was interpreted incorrectly, and that the 
RIPE NCC's procedures ought to change.

Absent this, the RIPE NCC's operationalisation of the policy will stay 
as-is.

Tore & Jeroen