At 11:44 08/31/2000 -0600, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
So who actually goes to these things, and was the new policy a later result of discussions at the meeting, or was there actually some sort of vote at the meeting?
There was a count-of-hands vote at either the member or public policy meeeting (I don't remember which one offhand, as it was a while ago). The issue had been discussed by the AC extensively, and we generally decided that we needed to bring the issue to the members before we could decide what the issue was. Interestingly enough the membership was more gung-ho on the idea than the AC was...
If memory serves, this show of hands took place in the ARIN Public Policy meeting, *NOT* in the member meeting. ARIN Public Policy meetings are intended to be open to the broader community -- they are not members-only affairs. See the announcement for the forthcoming ARIN VI meeting at http://www.arin.net/announcements/memmeet.html:
Public Policy Meeting The first two days will consist of the PPM, an open forum for discussing issues and addressing the needs of the IP community. All parties are invited to attend this meeting. At last April's event, many policy and related technical issues were endorsed.
Cheers, - Scott (speaking for himself only)