My text below is my own thoughts and not any official position from ARIN or the 
AC...

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 00:23 , JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Owen,
> 
> El 27/4/19 9:00, "Owen DeLong" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> escribió:
> 
>    Speaking only as a member of the community and based only on my 
> understanding of the PDP from reading it on the ARIN web site. If ARIN staff, 
> the board, or the chair of the AC have a differing opinion, my words below 
> should be considered in err.
> 
>    Close… You are absolutely correct that the petition is not about the 
> proposal’s merits (or lack thereof).
> 
>    In this case, the petition is actually to request that the ARIN Board 
> review the AC decision. If the ARIN board reverses the AC decision that the 
> proposal is out of scope, I believe it goes onto the AC Docket as a draft 
> policy, though I’m not 100% sure whether it then remains under the editorial 
> control of the authors (as would be the case for a petition against 
> abandonment or delay) or whether it goes under the editorial control of the 
> AC as is the case with a draft policy that didn’t become a draft through the 
> petition process.
> 
> Authors already have a new version ready (being published in RIPE in a matter 
> of hours/days), so it will be the logic thing, that if the petition is 
> accepted, we can update it. I think this is in the scope of the PDP.

I believe you can update it now and ask that the new version be reconsidered if 
you believe that your update brings it within scope. There’s a small chance 
that I’m wrong about that, but I don’t think so. As I’ve told you several times 
now, the AC decision does not preclude discussion of the matter. It merely 
prevents the proposal from advancing to draft policy status until something 
changes to bring it into scope or until a petition of that decision succeeds.

> 
>    To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time this particular type 
> of petition has been exercised.
> 
>    It is possible that the board will uphold the AC decision, in which case, 
> I believe that’s the end of the process and the proposal remains off the 
> docket.
> 
>    This is documented in section 3.2.1 of the PDP available at 
> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/#2-valid-petitions 
> <https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/#2-valid-petitions>
> 
> Having read that several times (and it is not a very clear process, and have 
> clear failures, such as 5 natural days for the petition, including weekend, 
> bank holidays, etc. ... in this case also the 1st of those days was national 
> holiday for one of the authors, and the last day is holiday in many 
> countries), and to be honest, as already said, I don't link this process vs 
> other RIRs PDPs (which of course aren't perfect, but at least they are not 
> being a "representative" system for the community). 

You are welcome to address your issues with our PDP through the ACSP and/or by 
contacting the board. The PDP itself is not within the purview of the PDP or 
the Advisory Council, so I cannot help you here.

I don’t think that the 5 natural day limit for filing a petition is at all 
unreasonable. All that is required is a simple email indicating that you wish 
to initiate a petition. Really, even if a couple of the 5 days are taken up as 
holidays, is it unreasonable to expect you to send a short email within 3 days? 
I think not. It’s also worth noting that the 5 day clock does not start ticking 
until the publication of the draft minutes. Often the meeting report is 
published prior to the draft minutes by several days, so authors usually have 
more than 5 days notice to actually submit the petition.

Could you point to what you think is unclear? IMHO, there are some unclear 
outcomes (e.g. who gets editorial control after the board reverses an AC 
decision of out-of-scope? Does the board’s reversal of the AC decision result 
in direct to draft policy status, or, does the AC then still have to act to 
move it to draft?), but the petition process itself seems quite clear to me.

        1.      Send a notice to PPML within 5 days of the publication of the 
draft minutes announcing the action being petitioned.
        2.      Gather supporting comments from the required number of other 
parties over the next 5 days.
        3.      Staff publishes a decision about whether the petition succeeded 
or not.

Clearly the process was not so difficult to understand as to prevent you from 
successfully engaging it.

Owen


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