[ripe-list] 'Ex Machina' Documents

On 9 Apr 2021, at 9:37, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> The RIPE Working Group Chairs met in March to discuss recommendations
> for possible changes to the RIPE Policy Development Process. …

Mirjam,

Thank you for sharing this meeting summary.

I have looked at 
https://www.ripe.net/publications/draft-and-discussion-files/review-of-the-ripe-appeals-procedure 
.
This is another example of a bad habit we have gotten into. In Rob’s 
time the RIPE community has only discussed documents that said clearly

	- Who had written the text,
     - on Whose request,
     - for What purpose, and
	- When it had been written, released or published.

Referring to documents without this basic information and discussing 
them is a bad habit. It is easily perceived as not transparent. The 
‘WWWW’ information is also essential for understanding and 
discussing any text.

My advice to the community in general and the Chair in particular is to 
insist that all documents we discuss in the context of RIPE  have this 
information.

Daniel