Policy Development Process - last call

At 14:04 +0200 4/28/05, Rob Blokzijl wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>    please find attached the latest version of the Policy Development
>Process document. This is a last call - final remarks either to this
>mailing list, or at the RIPE meeting next week.

I have a few questions about the proposal.  Perhaps the answer is 
that what I am concerned about it too detailed for the proposal, but 
I am curious nonetheless.  My comments are probably only related to 
policies that are requests or recommendations to the RIPE NCC.

1) Is there a provision for the impact of the policy on resources? 
I.e., how much will it "cost" to implement?

An impact statement, perhaps informal, would be good input to the 
discussion before the proposal goes to last call.  A proposal might 
be altered to save implementation costs, for example.

2) Is there a provision for setting the deadline on implementing a service?

Perhaps the template ought to have a proposed limit on how long, once 
the policy is approved for adoption, that the policy can be put into 
place.  This will help measure the impacts of the policy, the "up 
front costs" as it were.

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