[anti-abuse-wg] On +1s and Policy Awareness

Colleagues,

Two (broad) things to address, while, of course, noting that I would ask you all to assume best intent in all of your fellow working group members. And to post as politely as possible yourself!

I have, repeatedly, pointed out that all of the emails are being read by the Co-Chairs and the RIPE PDO. Short messages of support or +1s are noted and considered, but this is not a vote. I think I've said that twice now, hopefully the third time will be enough. We have also read the opinions of people about this, however the original statement remains unchanged. If, at the appropriate points, anyone in the working group feels the Co-Chairs have erred in our decision regarding consensus, then there is an appeals process. 

RIPE 710 covers the whole PDP and section 4 specifically covers appeals - https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-710

On the general awareness of the policy, the announcement on 2019-03 was posted to the Policy Announce list and to Routing-WG in addition to here. It has also been raised in a few other locations. Given where we are right now in the initial Discussion Phase and the plans by the authors to produce a v2.0 of the document, I would strongly suggest (but note that it is not certain) that nothing will have been decided by RIPE 78, when even more people will become aware. If people choose not to join the mailing list nor use the RIPE Forum to participate, then there is little the AA-WG can do.

So please, especially given all the nice things people have said about the Co-Chairs, and thank you for that, can you trust that we are both seeing all of the messages and treating them as stated, and if you don't agree, there is a process by which you can express this, rather than all going back and forth again here.

You can also always contact the Co-Chairs directly on aa-wg-chair at ripe.net

Thanks,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG



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