Dear colleagues,
The following two documents have now been published as RIPE documents: Review of the RIPE Appeals Procedure (ripe-760) https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-760 Evolution of the RIPE Policy Development Process (ripe-761) https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-761 The documents contain a number of recommendations, some of them related to the Policy Development Process (https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-710). Please find those recommendations below together with a suggested way forward. For more context and background, please refer to the two documents above. We would like to hear your feedback so that we can then update the PDP document accordingly. In a second mail, we will discuss recommendations that are specifically related to the appeals procedure as currently described in the PDP. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne & Niall O'Reilly RIPE Chair Team ---- 1. To clarify how the policy development process should be amended. The PDP is a community governance document that describes how policy is made within RIPE. Changes to the PDP are presented on the ripe list and discussed during a RIPE Community Plenary. A consensus call is then issued on the ripe-list by the RIPE Chair. Question to the community: Do you agree to add this to the PDP document? 2. To clarify or omit the identification of the RIPE Chair as "author and owner" of the policy development process. The community owns the PDP. The RIPE Chair is listed as the author of the document and oversees the community consensus process. Question to the community: Do you agree with this statement? 3. To discuss an idea for a policy proposal on the relevant mailing list before it is submitted as a formal policy proposal. Since the discussion phase is now part of the PDP, we recommend to add another step before a formal policy is submitted: It is recommended that an idea for a new policy or a change of an existing policy is sent to the relevant mailing list before it enters the formal PDP. Also, the relevant WG chairs are encouraged to work with the proposer in preparing a policy proposal. Question to the community: Do you agree with this approach?
