<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Jordi,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I'm not entirely certain that we would 100% agree here, but this may be nuance. We didn't do a direct mapping, but we did make an indicative assumption that opinions wouldn't have changed, while also considering what would have happened if those same people had said exactly the same thing in the Review Phase.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Effectively either of these two things would have had the same result for the decision on consensus.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Brian</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div id="Signature"> <div> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Brian Nisbet </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Service Operations Manager</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">+35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 </p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es><br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday 8 September 2020 09:20<br> <b>To:</b> Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet@heanet.ie>; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Report & Co-Chair's Decision on Proposal 2019-04</font> <div> </div> </div> <style>  </style> <div lang="ES" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <p></p> <div style="background-color:#FFCACA; width:100%; border-style:solid; border-color:#9C6500; border-width:1pt; padding:2pt; font-size:10pt; line-height:12pt; font-family:'Calibri'; color:Black; text-align:left"> <span style="color:#9C6500">CAUTION[External]:</span> This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe.</div> <br> <p></p> <div> <div class="x_WordSection1"> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi Brian,</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">I understand that the people can change their mind, for example, after other comments or the IA, etc.</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">This is the same across different proposal versions, even editorial text changes. People can change their mind.</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">However not stating a �mind change�, should be taken as having changed their position. I understand that you agree on all that and your decision is based on that perspective?</span></p> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">(I want to make sure that language differences between English and Spanish are not an interpretation problem here)</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Regards,</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Jordi</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">@jordipalet</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">El 8/9/20 10:07, "Brian Nisbet" <<a href="mailto:brian.nisbet@heanet.ie">brian.nisbet@heanet.ie</a>> escribi�:</p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"> </p> </div> <div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Jordi,</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Under the PDP, given potential changes to the policy and inputs such as the Impact Analysis it is very difficult for the Co-Chairs to make assumptions about points of view as we move into the Review Phase, hence people will often restate their support or opposition to the policy, and indeed will often hark back to comments they have previously made.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Again, this is why we listed the comments from the Discussion Phase and the Co-Chairs feel, even if everyone had made those same comments, the Co-Chairs feel there was no clear consensus for change.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Brian</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div id="x_Signature"> <div> <div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper"> <p style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Brian Nisbet </span></p> <p style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Service Operations Manager</span></p> <p style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network</span></p> <p style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland</span></p> <p style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">+35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie</span></p> <p style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 </span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:35.4pt; text-align:center"> <hr size="0" width="100%" align="center"> </div> <div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es><br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday 8 September 2020 08:58<br> <b>To:</b> Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet@heanet.ie>; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Report & Co-Chair's Decision on Proposal 2019-04</span> </p> <div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"> </p> </div> </div> <div> <div style="border:solid #9C6500 1.0pt; padding:2.0pt 2.0pt 2.0pt 2.0pt"> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt; line-height:12.0pt; background:#FFCACA"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#9C6500">CAUTION[External]:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"> This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe.</span></p> </div> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"> </p> <div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi Brian, all,</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">First of all, tks for this detailed report. I�m still processing it.</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">However, I�ve a open question for you, which I think it has been also clear from other emails, that it is not clear for the community.</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">People in favor (or against) the proposal has not (including myself), re-stated their position or repeated the same arguments. Is not that an indication that they keep their previous position?</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Regards,</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:35.4pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Jordi</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:35.4pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">@jordipalet</span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:35.4pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt">El 7/9/20 17:19, "anti-abuse-wg en nombre de Brian Nisbet" <<a href="mailto:anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net">anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net</a> en nombre de <a href="mailto:brian.nisbet@heanet.ie">brian.nisbet@heanet.ie</a>> escribi�:</p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"> </p> </div> <div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Colleagues,</span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">A few weeks ago we reached the end of the latest review phase for 2019-04. The Co-Chairs have worked closely with the NCC Policy Development Office since then to try to make a decision on this policy. This email contains a report on the Discussion Phase and Review Phase and then a final decision which, we believe, is supported by the activity during those phases.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">As always, this is underpinned by the RIPE PDP - <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ripe.net%2Fpublications%2Fdocs%2Fripe-710&data=02%7C01%7C%7C77d9871518aa4e5471c308d853d002a0%7Ccd9e8269dfb648e082538b7baf8d3391%7C0%7C0%7C637351500180901252&sdata=OKxXjMF5T8sQ6HRXsqXQ5GsJlRofQZn3X3UP4yTeYWA%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-710" shash="o4X6QFHSLnjFLEKOeOB3lLc8Q+ylGeAaU9UF7RUhDxDFTcm1tLk8WsB7/txaZ/OK0Y0tIpSTmWzJf4wgAW7fDrxiraiBhRyXenoTUzBiXxPEVDys7ME9WBRTQRMEviU+rDGbCTcAr/uPhM0ebZg2R8nyutBvYUYt/qra1wdKs0c=">https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-710</a></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Discussion Phase:</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">There was some clear support for the policy during the Discussion Phase. This came from:</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Serge Droz, who felt that it would help in a number of cases and that an inability to answer an e-mail every six month probably indicated underlying issues. He also felt it would allow the community to understand who was doing good work and who wasn't, and it will prevent organisations from saying they never received a report. He also pointed out some of the difference in reaction between the security and operator communities on this policy.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Carlos Friacas, agreed that it would help, but not solve all problems. He also flagged that if "deregistration" was not a possible outcome for a continuous failure to validate, then the outcome of transparency would still be positive, but did say that must be balanced against the NCC Impact Analysis.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Jordi Palet Martinez, the proposer, was, of course, in favour, but also reacted to a number of voices against the proposal:</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">- The job of the RIPE NCC is to implement the policies agreed by the community. I believe is perfectly understandable the need to avoid using manual forms which don't follow a single standard, which means extra work for *everyone*. (Responding to Nick Hilliard)</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">- The actual policy has a bigger level of micro-management, by setting one year and not allowing the NCC to change that. (Responding to Nick Hilliard)</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">- The problem of a form is that is not standard. This is economically non-sustainable and means that the cost of the abuse cases is on the back of the one actually reporting. (Responding to No No)</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">- The actual validation is not working, it is just a technical validation (responding to Gert Doering)</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">- The community prefers to do things in steps, we initially asked for an abuse mailbox, we then added a technical validation, now we are asking for a better validation. I am not asking to verify if you handle abuse case or not and I am not asking to take any new actions.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Angel Gonzalez Berdasco suuported the proposal, but also made multiple comments on a different approach, including an abuse-uri and highlighted that standarising the communications was important.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">A number of people spoke in clear opposition.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Nick Hilliard stated that it is not the job of the RIPE NCC to tell its members how to handle abuse reports. He further said that the is self-contradictory, intrusive into NCC membership business processes and there is no compelling reason to believe that the proposal will end up reducing the amount of abuse on the internet.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Gert Doering said that if people *do not want* to handle abuse reports, this proposal will not make them and that cases of misconfiguration are already caught today.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">No No did not want anyone to be restricted in how they received abuse reports.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Michele Neylon opposed the proposal and agreed with the points made by Nick.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">A number of other people posted either with mixed comments, or in a way that did not make it clear where they stood on the proposal:</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Job Snijders, Elad Cohen, Alistair Mackenzie, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Hans-Martin Mosner, Shane Kerr, Sascha Luck, Arash Naderpur, Richard Clayton, Alessandro Vesely, Randy Bush</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">The Review Phase of the proposal lasted from 20 July 2020 to 18 August 2020.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">There were 14 messages received during the review phase. Out of which, 3 were from the PDO, 1 was myself's and 2 were Jordi�s requesting clarification on the Impact Analysis.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> - There was no messages of support to the proposal.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">There was one message stating that the form is more beneficial than email to report abuse because it always reaches the host to which Jordi tried to address stating that email can be automated whilst forms can not.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> - There were opposing arguments based on two fronts:</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">1) Nick Hilliard and Erik Bais commented that the effort and cost to implement this proposal are too great in relations to the benefits that are alleged.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">2) Michele Neylon and Arash Naderpour commented that they oppose forcing operators to use only email for handling abuse reports and internal handling procedures should be solely defined by the operator.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Nick Hilliard and Michele Neylon also requested the proposal to be dropped as concerns raised over the last 18 months have not been addressed and tweaking this proposal would not add any value.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">There was no attempt to address the opposing arguments above during the review phase.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">With all of this in mind, and with the continued failure of any kind of consensus from the working group, the Co-Chairs have decided to withdraw this proposal. As always we would welcome proposals on this and other matters, however we do not feel that there is any likelihood of 2019-04, regardless of possible edits, reaching consensus in the short or medium term.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Alireza, Brian, Tobias</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Co-Chairs, RIPE AA-WG</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p> </div> <div id="x_x_Signature"> <div> <div id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"> <p style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Brian Nisbet </span></p> <p style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Service Operations Manager</span></p> <p style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network</span></p> <p style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland</span></p> <p style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">+35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie</span></p> <p style="margin-left:70.8pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. 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