Subject: End of comment period: [prop-039-v001] A proposal to improve reachability of new IANA blocks

Dear Colleagues,

The extended comment period for the proposal, [prop-039-v002] "A proposal to improve reachability of new IANA blocks", has now ended.

We would like to conclude that there is no clear consensus for the proposal [proposal-039-v002].

Thank you all for participating in the discussions.

Summary of final comment period discussion ------------------------------------------ The final comment period for the proposal ended on 1 December 2006. During the comment period, there was no comment in favour and 5 comments against the proposal.

Neither the proposer nor the supporters of this proposal have responded the comments made in the mailing list.

Major comments made on the list were:

+ This proposal duplicates existing efforts and won't do anything to fix the current problem.

+ This is more about education than spending members' money.

For a detailed history of this proposal, see:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-039-v002.html

Side Note: ---------- The proposal's goal was to solve the problem of routing allocations from new /8s allocated by IANA. Although there was opposition to the specific solution in this proposal, there was an understanding by those who commented on the mailing list that this is a problem that needs to be tackled. Randy Bush showed his intention to propose to tackle this.

Regards, Kenny Huang, Toshiyuki Hosaka, Eugene Li