[ncc-services-wg] Update regarding the proposals to improve the technical infrastructure supporting the RIPE Policy Development Process

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:12:08PM +0200, Mihnea-Costin Grigore wrote:
> Problem Statement
> --------------------
> The RIPE PDP process is too complicated for everyone: outsiders, new
> members, experienced members, authors, and the RIPE NCC. Therefore,
> participation should be made easier, especially for new-comers.
> 
> Main scope:
> - The initial focus and effort are on the RIPE PDP -- proposals, drafts
> and policy documents; if any progress is made here, then we can think of
> applying the same or similar solutions to other areas of RIPE documentation
> - Any solutions discussed should also work for non-techies
> 
> Details of the problem:
> 
> a) The meta-data provided is incomplete:
> - RIPE Policy Documents and Policy Proposals don't have unique and
> clearly identified global names/identifiers
> - There is no clear version and date for publication
> - There is no track of who and when requested and approved a certain change
> - There is no clear up to date succession and obsolescence information
> within documents
> - There is no canonical way to get an overview of all currently active
> documents
> 
> b) There is no systematic access to all versions of a document:
> - There is no directly available history
> - There are no easy to use tools to correlate between versions
> - There are no tools for authors to submit new/corrected versions of a
> document as it evolves through the PDP
> 
> c) There is no plain-text version of each document and version thereof
> in ASCII format
> 
> [------------8<------------]

I find this a fairly impressive piece of work - it follows the rule
"a document is perfect if there is no longer something to take away",
which is much harder than writing a 50 page document.

And I agree with the problem statement :-)

Gert
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