[address-policy-wg] Cosmetic Surgery Project: Extended Review period on the new draft document for IPv6 Address Policy

On 30/05/11 14:04, Emilio Madaio wrote:
> At RIPE 59 in Lisbon in October 2009, the RIPE NCC announced that it
> would undertake a project to make various RIPE policy documents easier
> to understand without changing the meaning of the text.
> 
> As already announced, the latest draft document produced according to
> the project is available at:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/
> 
> This is the merger of the three policy documents:
> 
> -ripe-512 "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy"
> -ripe-451 "IPv6 Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points"
> -ripe-233 "IPv6 Addresses for Internet Root Servers in the RIPE Region"
> 
> The announcement of the publication of this new draft is available at:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2011/msg00243.html
> 
> 
> The Address Policy Working Group co-Chairs decided to extend the review
> period until 13 June 2011 to allow the community more time to give their
> feedback.

	This is a significantly ambitious project.  Simply merging
	existing documents is already a challenge.  Transforming
	the output in the same operation "to make [it] easier to
	understand without changing the meaning of the text"
	augments that challenge.

	I believe that the routine work needed to support this review
	has not yet been performed by the RIPE NCC, and that the
	proposed deadline, even though already extended, is
	unrealistic.  Specifically, the version of the change
	proposal which juxtaposes current and proposed text does
	not show from which of the three source documents the text
	presented as "current" is taken.  Resolving the source
	references appears to have been left implicitly as an
	exercise for the reader.  I expect that this will surely
	discourage engagement in the review process.

	Best regards
	Niall O'Reilly