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I'm sure that closing this discussion would be dangerous, because during the Moscow meeting it have been said that silence would be regarded as consent.

To create a separate Internet registry for a region, a consensus among interested parties in the region has to be achieved. The discussion on this list showed everything except consensus. Most discutants were from former Soviet republics (applogies if anyone will find himself/herself offended by this remark, but it is a fact), while most people from this list, located on the West side of the Russian border, expressed none or very small interest to take part in the discussion. Fist off, the point of my previous proposal to create a local mailing list in Russia (I've heard it exists) is not to stress out that this discussion is unuseful. On the contrary ... it IS useful, but it is being run at the WRONG PLACE! Secondly, it came to the point where consensus could not be reached. Since I'm living in a country whose destiny much resembles to the destiny of the former Soviet Union, my personal point of view of the further steps would be: * Move the discussion from the LIR-WG to the local mailng list. * Create a local working group, consisting of representatives of all interested parties. * Organize a public forum, meeting - either live or electronic. * Try to reach consensus within the working group. * Don't publish anything out of the local working group scope until there is a strong consensus among all (or, at least, among the majority of) interested parties. * Of course - someone will always stay unhappy, but that's everyday life ... * If the consensus among all (or significant majority of) interested parties can not be reached, forget the whole idea! It will be more like an awful marriage, than a good RIR! * If and when consensus is reached - publish the proposal to the RIPE, IANA and other interested parties and mailing lists. * To the rest of the world, all interested parties MUST show mutual consensus clearly. After it has been reached, noone MUST NOT express anything against the statements, built in the draft proposal. Good luck on the future work on the Russian RIR! ;-) Best regards, Beri .-------. | --+-- | Berislav Todorovic, B.Sc.E.E. | E-mail: BERI@etf.bg.ac.yu | /|\ Hostmaster of the YU TLD | |-(-+-)-| School of Electrical Engineering | Phone: (+381-11) 3221-419 | \|/ Bulevar Revolucije 73 | 3370-106 | --+-- | 11000 Belgrade SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA | Fax: (+381-11) 3248-681 `-------' --------------------------------------------------------------------