[cooperation-wg] Internet governance

In message <528E1E7B.60000 at inex.ie>, at 14:53:47 on Thu, 21 Nov 2013, 
Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> writes
>> Where is the "running code" when it come to (eg) denying IXPs the right to
>> have provider-independent IPv6 addresses (as was the case for some
>> considerable time).
>
>that particular policy bug was fixed in the summer of 2001.  In the 12.5
>years since then, I think we can reasonably claim that the RIPE community
>has built up a vibrant interest in actively managing its addressing
>policies using bottom up principals.

And I don't dispute that for a moment.

Currently I'm particularly interested in getting the "underbottom" 
(that's users and their representatives, rather than typically the layer 
above, their connectivity suppliers) more involved in that process. It's 
a bit like "civil society, but without the anticensorship flavour".
-- 
Roland Perry