[anti-abuse-wg] Unanimity

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 11:20:51PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Just a brief point.  I previously noted here that RIPE's rules requiring
> unanimity or near unanimity in order to declare "consensus" with respect
> to any given proposal has recently been recognized, by some EU politicians
> at least, as being a material impediment to forward movement on various
> issues.

RIPE does not require unanimity to declare consensus.

What *is* required is significant support and that all objections raised
have been sufficiently addressed.  If and when that is reached is judged
by the WG chairs, and sometimes this is a very tough job (if there have
been lengthy and heated discussions on some side aspects, for example).

For RIPE's address policy WG, I used to point at RFC7282, which describes
the goals for "IETF consensus" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282)

Gert Doering
        -- somewhat involved in RIPE policy things
-- 
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