> On Sep 8, 2021, at 19:05 , John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8 Sep 2021, at 4:30 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> ... >> >>> I am unaware of the ARIN Board ever proposing policy aside from the >>> circumstances in 2009 regarding the need for a usable transfer policy. >> >> Then you are forgetting two additional incidents… >> >> + >> The sudden retirement of the IPv4 aggregation policy >> + >> The suspension (and subsequent rewrite) of the Waiting List policy >> >> Admittedly in both of these cases, the board was suspending/terminating >> existing policy, but a deletion of a policy or a rewrite still amounts to >> the board changing policy. > > Owen - > > Suspension of policy does not equate to “proposing policy” - The ARIN PDP > provides that mechanisms for the ARIN Board to handle the situation where > changing circumstance requires that policy be suspended so that the community > can have time to review and develop updated policy as they see fit for the > changing circumstances.
Sure… I’ll bite… But you can suspend enough policy that you simply stop issuing addresses until some change is enacted through some process, so… > The community can only develop policy so quickly, and yet significantly > changed circumstances may require that the registry suspend policy to prevent > harm to the community and/or the mission. Both of the situations you listed > above are cases where the ARIN Board acted with due care to suspend policy > that had a high risk of number resources being issued contrary to the > purposes of the current policy and in both cases the community responded with > the updated policy it felt most appropriate. I’m not arguing that these capabilities are a bad thing… I’m just pointing out that they are circumstances where the board unilaterally changed the operation of the registry by effectively deleting policy (at least temporarily). Most people regard a deletion as a form of change. Owen
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