Jim Reid wrote:
Michael, I was hoping we could reduce the number of options to consider for 2009-01, not add to them. Oh well...
So how about just having these two possibilities:
1) Withdraw 2009-01. It's dead. Heroic measures to revive it and achieve a global policy are not going to have a happy outcome. So accept that situation and give up.
Personally, I'd opt for 1)
2) Continue with 2009-01 with a view to aligning things with the other RIRs except ARIN. Perhaps that might persuade ARIN to reconsider. It's also good PR because we're committing to making recovered space available for the greater good, even if that recovered space will probably just exist as an abstract concept.
So what's the point then?
Does anyone here have a spare /8 to hand over?
Looking at the global environmant, my feeling is that the communities of the RIRs should rather act as a body speaking with one voice to the outside world; rather than engaging in mental experiments of 3:2 or 4:1 scores. Being seen as having major differences or a "shoot-out" between RIRs (or their communities) will probably be used against our common interests. Wilfried.