Before I forget I was meant to comment about this topic a while ago. I have to agree with below commends about how weird AC works.

For some that are used to be members, have been used with this structure and have the control to micro-manage things it may sound fine things the way they are, but I also find weird the way AC was structured in the past to have such tight control of these details and I felt the same comment below on one previous proposals.

The center of any proposal should always be on the author(s) and shepherds should only facilitate discussion both within the AC and with the community, but have very little input into modifying the text. Above all what should always prevail is the author's idea. If his/her idea is too much out of what the community understands or believe is good and the author is not willing to make any adjustments than it shall not reach consensus and life follows normally.

I also have a feeling that sometimes AC members personal view end up overcoming the author's original idea (maybe not intentionally I reckon) which should never happen and there should be a high level of attention from each one to try to eliminate anything related to their personal view when dealing with advancing that proposal or not. In short, AC should not ever act as a mini parliament to analyze merit of any proposals, but merely evaluate if there has been consensus from community about a proposal and of course if it matches whatever minimum necessary for a proposal to go through the whole policy development process.

For that reason I also don't see ARIN PDP as a proper PDP compared to all others and suggest all involved parties to think of modifications of the current structure to make it more centered on both author proposal idea and community as sovereign, of course along with ARIN Board to ratify proposals that may not bring any legal damage to the organization. Maybe there was a reason to have such a tight and concentrated power in the past when it was created, but now a days it doesn't seem the best in terms of balance between community and members interest.

Best regards
Fernando

On 26/10/2023 15:11, jordi.palet--- via ARIN-PPML wrote:
This hast not been my experience.

In several of my proposals to the ARIN PDP, I was tied to follow the shepherds 
inputs, and I’m convinced that those proposals failed because that.

And I recall one specific case, that the AC edits resulted in a major problem, 
requiring a new policy proposal to amend it back.

That’s why I don’t really see the ARIN PDP as a “real” PDP compared to the 
other regions.


In my experience, the AC works very hard to remain true to the author’s
original intent and involve author(s) in the editorial process of a policy.
The AC is also extremely receptive to whatever community input is
available on a policy in most cases.


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