[address-policy-wg] Is policy-making "large organisation friendly"?

Jim and all,

  Anyone with half a brain and only a bit of experiance know that
policy making almost always favors large orgs. significantly.

Jim Reid wrote:

> On 25 Jul 2009, at 17:44, Greg wrote:
>
> > You can only see how fast "large organization friendly" proposals go
> > through and are accepted - this is just my personal view :) See the
> > multiple /24 allocations for cTLDs that just got accepted.
>
> It's not clear what point, if any, you're making here.
>
> The recent change to provide space to TLDs for anycasting was
> discussed on this list. Everyone had a chance to contribute to that
> policy development. Many did. Including some like me who represent no
> large organisation or even an LIR. The consensus was that these
> allocations would be a Good Thing for the Internet, not just the TLD
> operators who would get the space. Everybody and everything using the
> Internet benefits if the DNS infrastructure for things like TLDs is
> made more robust by anycasting, there's not just a small number of DNS
> hosting companies offering commercial anycast services, etc, etc.
>
> I fail to understand why you'd characterise this policy as being
> "large organisation friendly". It's clearly for the benefit of
> everyone using the Internet. Oh and most TLD registries are not large
> organisations. The biggest of them have turnover and staffing
> equivalent to a modest ISP. My guess is the TLD registries that are
> NCC members will probably be in the small membership category because,
> comparitively speaking, they don't need or use a lot of numbering
> resources.
>
> Now it may be that large organisations are better placed than small
> ones to participate in policy discussions or attend RIPE meetings.
> That's just a a fact of life. However it doesn't mean policy-making is
> dominated by those large organisations. The barrier for participation
> in policy discussions could hardly be any lower: a mail/web client and
> some understanding of English. Your complaint, if it is indeed a
> complaint, seems to be a bit like moaning about the government when
> you've not even bothered to vote.

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