[address-policy-wg] The emacs, X windows and Linux approach to policy making

It's tempting to consider tweaking our policy for the IPv4 dregs to  
show our displeasure at the path ARIN has adopted. However I hope we  
can rise above that.

I'm also beginning to wonder if policy-making is being unconsciously  
shaped by the Linux/emacs/X-windows approach to software design. If  
that can be called "design". [The only thing wrong with these bits of  
code is they don't have enough options or configuration variables to  
tweak. :-)] I would like to see fewer options on what to do about  
2009-01. Ideally it should be reduced to a binary choice.

With that in mind and Nigel's comments that the proposal is dead and  
starting to have a bad smell, I suggest we reduce the discussion of  
2009-01 to a simple choice of whether to withdraw it or not.

IMO, withdrawing this proposal makes the most sense. Continuing with  
it would only be worthwhile if the same approach to recovered space  
was being followed by the other RIRs. Since that's no longer possible,  
I think we should just stop flogging this dead horse.

If there's support for keeping 2009-01 alive, I'd like to suggest we  
focus the discussion to a choice between two mutually exclusive  
positions:

1) recovered space goes back to IANA for it to redistribute somehow
2) recovered space stays with the NCC for redistribution according to  
RIPE policy