Re: [address-policy-wg] 2008-09 New Policy Proposal (ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte ASNs)

[Shane Kerr shane@localhost]

Marco,

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:41 +0200, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
> 
> >> Let's keep things simple please!
> >
> > Indeed, but I guess you would not recommend to "simply" change a
> > formally adopted policy document, would you? This could be seen as
> > a nasty precedent...
> 
> 
> You have a point there and it we might call it an oversight in the PDP  
> to not be able to handle small changes in formatting or typos without  
> going through the whole process again. So for the sake of it all,  
> let's adopt this change using the current proces and focus the  
> discussion on how to handle such changes in the future. I don't expect  
> it to happen much, but the way you put it a small cosmetic error can  
> result in going over a lenghty discussion again and might be a tool to  
> bend things differently by the need to reach consensus again.

I agree.

Right now there *is* no other way to change policies, right? I found
Thomas' comment a bit strange - like asking the IETF to create a
standard without an Internet draft.

But he does have a point that the PDP may be heavyweight in cases like
this. So you are right, lets tweak the PDP. :)

Cheers,

--
Shane