[ripe-list] Fwd: RIPE Community session on proposed revised PDP - Minutes and draft version 2

Dear colleagues,

Many thanks to those who provided comments so far.

You can still provide feedback before the deadline on 16 March 2022.

Kind regards,
Mirjam

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On Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 at 14:44, Mirjam Kuehne<mir at zu-hause.nl>  wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
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> On 26 January we held an online meeting to gather feedback about the
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> revised Policy Development Process (PDP). The recordings, minutes and
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> slides can be found here:
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> https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-community-plenary/minutes/revised-pdp-workshop/
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> Below you can find a short summary of the main points discussed at the
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> meeting. Based on this feedback we adjusted the draft document and
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> created a new red-lined version:
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> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/policy-development-process-in-ripe-v2
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> Please review the changes carefully and provide any additional feedback
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> before 16 March 2022.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Mirjam Kühne
>
> ============
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> Meeting Summary:
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> The overall sentiment was to rely on community consensus and common
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> sense as much as possible and to keep formalism at a minimum.
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> 1. Author and Ownership of the Document
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> There was general agreement to make a distinction between the author and
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> owner of the PDP: the community should be listed as owner of the PDP and
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> the RIPE Chair as the author of the document. [1]
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> 2. Scope of the Document
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> There was agreement to shorten the introduction of the document to
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> clarify that the PDP only refers to policy. There was also agreement to
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> keep the section about values and principles.
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> 3. Changes to PDP
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> Most people agreed that the scope of the Policy Development Process
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> should be limited to creating policy. It should not be used to change
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> the PDP itself or other RIPE governance documents. It was suggested
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> however to carefully manage the change process including clear deadlines
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> and announcements to ensure proper community consensus building.
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> 4. Re-introducing Informal Discussion Step
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> There was strong agreement to re-introduce this step and that gathering
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> support prior to a formal proposal is crucial.
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> 5. Appeals Procedure – Process, Deadlines, Recusals
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> There was general agreement to have a well defined appeals procedure
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> with clear deadlines and a certain level of formalism. Some people
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> suggested to create a separate appeals body. Others felt that it will be
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> difficult to find people and that the WG chairs tend to have experience
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> with the PDP.
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> 6. Editorial Changes
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> There was no disagreement about the suggested editorial changes.
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> ---
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> [1] There was a question if the RIPE Vice Chair should also be listed.
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> However, ripe-714 provides the option for the RIPE Chair to delegate to
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> others, e.g. a Vice Chair.
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