Hi Fernando,

Sorry we're in a bit of a civil war here, I'll get back to you asap.

Regards,

Sam 18 mai 2024, à 02:51, Fernando Frediani a écrit :
> Hello Bertrand
> 
> 
> Since the question was directed to you, you cannot expected a policy author 
> to answer on your behalf. I was question your decision to give consensus to 
> such a controversial proposal that has had zero support from community.
> Sometimes on these forums I get in doubt if the Chairs opinion and preference 
> for a proposal end up influencing them to give consensus to a proposal just 
> because they like it and find it good which should not happen, because Chairs 
> function is to declare if based on the community discussion there was 
> consensus or not and void his own opinion from the evaluation. I am not 
> saying by that that what happened in this case, but certainly gets us doubts, 
> specially in a case where nobody else from community supported it.
> 
> Well, what happens in the list cannot be valued less than what happens int he 
> OPM. It is not that one weights more than the other, because opinions from 
> the community are what matters, regardless if they were written or said at a 
> microphone. What is in the room is sometimes a tiny fraction of the whole 
> community so how can that be privileged over the other. Both should always 
> have the same consideration.
> 
> 
> I think I know a bit about consensus and I am on it for a while. Have still a 
> fair amount to learn but I didn't start last week.
> During the discussion was mentioned points of the RFC 7282 but they were 
> ignored. Just to recap I want to mention them again to question your decision 
> to keep the consensus to a proposal that had basically zero support from the 
> community. Even in a scenario of the Japanese person have turned into a 
> neutral opinion it still support doesn't exist to give consensus to a 
> proposal where apparently only the author was in favor.
> 
> 
> At what stage all the many different problems I mentioned for this proposal 
> not to pass and that it was unnecessary were addressed ? It was just a 
> question of points of views of the author of the proposal and mine, nothing 
> else. I have put several technical considerations to show there was 
> alternatives to avoid having yet another unnecessary policy and the author 
> defended his proposal with what I understand as "nice to have thing" and 
> seems to not have understood all the technical points put. 
> One in special that is very hard to buy is that it is necessary and a must to 
> supply public IPv4 to people on these temporary event during IPv4 exhaustion 
> as if the current scenario was completely ignored. By just giving any reply 
> to a question it not necessarily addressing it.
> 
> 
> Point 5.1 of APNIC Policy Development Process says "*If there is little or no 
> comment for or against the proposal, the Chair needs to assess the level of 
> interest in the proposal. Perhaps the community does not believe a problem 
> exists, or, alternatively, the participants are hesitant to begin 
> discussion*.". Is it hard to find out that was the case. Where was community 
> interest in this proposal, at a minimal ? 2 comments against, 1 that 
> supposedly turned to neutral, the one against remaining with a lot of the 
> opposition points not answer and still it was given consensus.
> 
> It also says "*The Chair may ask this for individual elements of the 
> proposal*." and "*If the majority of the participants indicate that they have 
> no opinion, the Chair and the author should work to stimulate discussion 
> about the proposal*.
> " . May I ask when was that done, specially in a proposal that community 
> showed near no interest in discussing ?
> Further it also says "*If the participants do not believe that the problem is 
> real, or significant, the Chair should ask the author to reconsider the need 
> for the proposal. 2) If there are objections, the Chair can ask the 
> dissenters to decide if their objections are: Minor objections: ... Major 
> objections*". Seems the case as well that didn't happen.
> 
> 
> "*The Chair should devote sufficient time for participants to discuss ways to 
> overcome major objections. As in the case of minor objections, participants, 
> including the proponent, should work together to develop solutions that 
> overcome the objections*.". Didn't seem to happen too.
> "*The process of working together to create a proposal acceptable to all 
> participants may take more than one OPM phase*" - Why the rush to give 
> consensus to a proposal that was far from consensus ?
> 
> Bertrand I hope you can kindly give the feedback necessary to all these 
> points because for me it is concerning a proposal with such a controversy 
> discussion and how was conducted could reach consensus and I have concerns of 
> other proposals of other subjects that could also reach in similar terms. In 
> the doubt there should be no consensus.
> 
> It is shocking that APNIC Development Process up to today doesn't have an 
> appeal process in order to deal with this issue. I invite other authors to 
> work in a proposal to change it and have one as other policy forums.
> 
> I also urge APNIC EC to not Endorse this proposal.
> 
> Regards
> Fernando
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/05/2024 02:21, Bertrand Cherrier via SIG-policy wrote:
>> Hello Fernando,
>> 
>> I didn't ignore you, sorry if that's how you felt, please accept my 
>> apologies.
>> Christopher did gave you the correct answer, so I figured that saying again 
>> the same thing would be useless, my bad !
>> Gaging consensus is not an easy task, we start with the mailing list, most 
>> of the time it's pretty fast as there is close to no comments (...) 
>> sometimes you get a long thread with many peoples (but this is rare).
>> >From there, most of the time, we have no clue if the prop will pass or not, 
>> >everything will be done at the OPM. And this is where the fun starts. We 
>> >take into consideration the comments and the questions during the 
>> >presentation, dnd then we call for consensus
>> The confer tool is an element used because some community members will not 
>> show their approval (or rejection) publicly, most of the time it confirms 
>> what's in the room. The call for consensus (described in the PDP) is then 
>> used to gage the room temperature after the OPM discussions, it's not 
>> something you can really describe, it's a feeling, and even when you're in 
>> the room (and not on the stage) it's not easy to get. Each call is unique, 
>> and sometimes it gets very tricky (prop-154 was one of them, ask Aftab about 
>> it ^_^), only with experience and time you can do a good job! It's one of 
>> the reason why in the last decade (or more) all the Chairs were co-Chairs 
>> before.
>> The part that lead to the opposition from the JPOPF was addressed in v2, and 
>> changed to a neutral opinion.
>> 
>> If you were to come to Wellington, I would gladly talk with you about 
>> consensus !
>> 
>> Ven 03 mai 2024, à 03:16, Fernando Frediani a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hello Bertrand
>>> 
>>> It seems that you completely ignored this discussion recently and didn't 
>>> answer questions that were put specifically to you.
>>> On 06th March it was asked what was taken into consideration in order 
>>> give consensus on this proposal and you never replied. It was put and 
>>> reviewed all the amount of objections that has been opened, technical 
>>> concerns and that the justifications given by the author were not enough 
>>> to justify the policy. There was also a message contrary to the proposal 
>>> by the Japanese group and *none* in favor of it, zero.
>>> 
>>> Only the author replied to this thread defending his proposal but on the 
>>> subsequent messages on 07th March and on 11th March it was said the 
>>> question was direct to you but you simply ignored it as if you didn't 
>>> have to answer or explain anything.
>>> You simply thanked the author as if he could answer by yourself. All you 
>>> mentioned was asking to put things that could improve the proposal, but 
>>> didn't specifically answered the main point about explaining what was 
>>> taken into consideration to give consensus to a proposal that has 
>>> several objections with proper justification and zero support from any 
>>> community member.
>>> 
>>> So either you didn't pay attention there was a question for you to 
>>> explain publicly or you didn't care to answer.
>>> Afterwards you just confirmed the proposal had reached consensus without 
>>> explaining anything further from the recent discussion.
>>> 
>>> As the duty to give or not consensus to a policy lies exclusively on the 
>>> chairs it is their duty to explain their reasoning whenever needed and 
>>> in this case was a case that clearly there was controversy, but at the 
>>> end seems that you with the Co-Chairs treated it as something usual that 
>>> didn't even has the need to explain to community the reasoning behind 
>>> this consensus. It is something concerning in my view and I want to 
>>> reiterate the need to explain this consensus because as this one that 
>>> can be any other proposals that may pass despite concerns and problems.
>>> 
>>> Fernando
>>> 
>>> On 12/04/2024 02:34, Bertrand Cherrier via SIG-policy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>> 
>>>> The four-week final comment period for this proposal has ended.
>>>> 
>>>> Proposal details, including the full text of the proposal, history, and
>>>> links to previous versions are available at:
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-156/
>>>> 
>>>> During the final comment period there was one objection raised on the 
>>>> consensus process. It was addressed by the Chair and a community member.
>>>> As consensus for this proposal has been maintained, We formally 
>>>> request that the APNIC Executive Council endorse this proposal.
>>>> 
>>>> Once again, thank you for your participation in the APNIC policy
>>>> development process.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Bertrand, Shaila and Anupam
>>>> Policy SIG Chairs
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