[ncc-services-wg] Update regarding the proposals to improve the technical infrastructure supporting the RIPE Policy Development Process
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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Wed Sep 25 20:53:59 CEST 2013
Hi, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:12:08PM +0200, Mihnea-Costin Grigore wrote: > Problem Statement > -------------------- > The RIPE PDP process is too complicated for everyone: outsiders, new > members, experienced members, authors, and the RIPE NCC. Therefore, > participation should be made easier, especially for new-comers. > > Main scope: > - The initial focus and effort are on the RIPE PDP -- proposals, drafts > and policy documents; if any progress is made here, then we can think of > applying the same or similar solutions to other areas of RIPE documentation > - Any solutions discussed should also work for non-techies > > Details of the problem: > > a) The meta-data provided is incomplete: > - RIPE Policy Documents and Policy Proposals don't have unique and > clearly identified global names/identifiers > - There is no clear version and date for publication > - There is no track of who and when requested and approved a certain change > - There is no clear up to date succession and obsolescence information > within documents > - There is no canonical way to get an overview of all currently active > documents > > b) There is no systematic access to all versions of a document: > - There is no directly available history > - There are no easy to use tools to correlate between versions > - There are no tools for authors to submit new/corrected versions of a > document as it evolves through the PDP > > c) There is no plain-text version of each document and version thereof > in ASCII format > > [------------8<------------] I find this a fairly impressive piece of work - it follows the rule "a document is perfect if there is no longer something to take away", which is much harder than writing a 50 page document. And I agree with the problem statement :-) Gert -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 306 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/attachments/20130925/b3f03c87/attachment.sig>
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