I'd like to remind you that we're half way through the 8-week comment period.
Dear colleagues
Version 2 of prop-108 Suggested changes to the APNIC Policy Development
Process, reached consensus at the APNIC 36 Policy SIG and later at the
APNIC Member Meeting.
This proposal will now move to the next step in the APNIC Policy
Development Process and is being returned to the Policy SIG mailing list
for the final 8-week comment period.
At the end of this period the Policy SIG Chairs will evaluate comments
made and determine if the consensus reached at APNIC 36 still holds.
If consensus holds, the Chairs of the Policy SIG will ask the Executive
Council to endorse the proposal for implementation.
- Send all comments and questions to: <sig-policy at apnic dot net>
- Deadline for comments: 24:00 (UTC+10) Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Proposal details
A proposal to optimize and/or disambiguate procedures carried out under
the current APNIC PDP.
Proposal details, including the full text of the proposal, history, and
links to the APNIC 36 meeting archive, are available at:
http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-108
Regards
Andy and Masato
prop-108-v002: Suggested changes to the APNIC Policy Development Process
Proposers: Dean Pemberton dean@internetnz.net.nz
Izumi Okutani izumi@nic.ad.jp
- Introduction
At APNIC 35 in Singapore, Policy-SIG co-chair Masato Yamanishi delivered
a presentation [PSIG35-1] outlining a number of inconsistencies or areas
of sub-optimisation within the documentation governing the current APNIC
Policy Development Process. This policy proposal outlines one part of
the documentation that are inconsistent or do not match with the reality
of how the process is implemented. It also describes the problem and
seeks to offer ways to change the required documentation to optimise
the APNIC PDP in these areas in collaboration with the community.
- Problem Statement
Yamanishi-san highlighted a number of inconsistencies in his
presentation. This proposal seeks to address one of these issues.
The relevant steps in the PDP [APNICPDP-1] to be addressed in this
proposal are presented below for reference purposes:
- Step 3
Discussion after the OPM Proposals that have reached consensus at
the OPM will be circulated on the appropriate SIG mailing list for a
period of eight weeks. This is known as the "comment period".
. The length of the required comment period for successful policy
proposals after the AMM
As above Section 4 of APNIC PDP document requires that “Proposals
that have reached consensus at the OPM will be circulated on the
appropriate SIG mailing list for a period of eight weeks. This is
known as the "comment period".
In practice, once a proposal has been through discussion on the
mailing list, been presented an OPM for further discussion, and
successfully demonstrated consensus of the community, there are
little or no comments generated within the eight week subsequent
comment period. Most concerns are raised within two weeks after the
call for final comments. It should also be noted that there has not
been a case where a new opinion raised more than four weeks after the
call for final comments. Chairs should be able to judge whether there
are substantial concerns for the consensus within a shorter period.
Eight weeks is a significant amount of time to allow for additional
comments after a policy proposal has gained consensus at the OPM. It
is in fact longer than the entire discussion period under which the
proposal was presented.
At present all the 8 week comment period serves to do is
significantly delay the implementation of policy which been
demonstrated to have the consensus of the community.
- Objective of Policy Change
To optimise and/or disambiguate procedures carried out under the current
APNIC PDP.
- Proposed Policy Solution
This section will propose a change which seeks to resolve the problem
outlined above.
The length of the required comment period for successful policy
proposals after the AMM
In order to allow for the shortening of this period, Step 3 of the
PDP should be replaced with:
--------[APNICPDP-1]--------
Proposals that have reached consensus at the OPM and the AMM will be
circulated on the appropriate SIG mailing list for a period, the
duration of which will not be shorter than four weeks but no longer
than eight weeks. The decision to extend more than four weeks,
including the duration of the extension will be determined at the
sole discretion of the Chair.
This is known as the "comment period".
--------[APNICPDP-1]--------
- Pros/Cons
Advantages:
The changes outlined above will ensure that the APNIC PDP is kept
inline with best current practice of the operation of the SIGs
Disadvantages:
None at present
- Impact on APNIC
These changes will ensure that the development of policy within APNIC
continues to occur in a standardised, consistent framework.
- References
[APNICPDP-1] APNIC policy development process - 19 February 2004
Accessed from http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/docs/policy-development.txt
[PSIG35-1] Yamanishi, M., “APNIC35 Policy-SIG Informational: Questions
for Clarification in the APNIC PDP”, APNIC 35, Singapore, 28 February
2013. Accessed from
http://conference.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/58992/ambiguouts
-points-in-pdp-2013027_1361972669.pdf
