[address-policy-wg] 2015-05

Hi Remco,

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 01:08:03PM +0000, remco van mook wrote:
> While I applaud your willingness to provide a platform to any and all
> policy proposal regardless of its merit, I must now strongly encourage you
> to start reconsidering this approach or to start actively moderating
> discussions on this mailing list.

As much as I value your wisdom and contributions, *this* we totally 
cannot do - that is, decide "by order of the chair" which proposals
have merit or not, or moderate the list (except in extreme cases).

We do our best to focus the discussions and do call people to order if
needed - OTOH, there are so many aspects to this particular topic (like:
is there a real problem with IPv6 in Iran or not?) that it's not easy
to declare something to be totally off-topic - and in particular, the
argument "just stop wasting all our time on IPv4!" has been brought up
before, and I can well see the merits of *this*.

So, what do you want us to do?  Disallow any discussions that touch
IPv4, or have operational / monetary impact on people's networks?  This
would harm our open process much more than the occasional discussion
that strays quite far from the original topic.


(But anyway - Remco is right of course that some of the "contributions"
to this discussions are *so* totally off-topic that even a very liberal
interpretation won't find any useful content in there - like, signature
flames going to the whole list - so, please refrain from adding extra
noise to the discussion.  You know who you are...)

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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