[136632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 3 17:57:43 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D4AF0C5.1020000@steadfast.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:53:12 -0800
To: Kevin Stange <kevin@steadfast.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Kevin Stange wrote:
> On 02/03/2011 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>> I'm not inclined to believe that ARIN members will collectively agree
>> on anything significant, so the policy process is a lot like U.S.
>> government (not a lot getting done).
>
> ARIN members don't make binding votes on individual policy actions, they
> elect the Advisory Council and Board of ARIN. ARIN solicits policy
> proposals and takes feedback and general counts of yea and nay votes for
> those proposals before deciding whether to adopt them.
>
Those advisory votes are by the community, not the membership as well.
Owen
