<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>I herald the efforts of the authors of the soft landing SD proposal and commend you on listening to the request of the members/community.<br><br></div>I would further like to urge the authors of IPv4 Soft Landing-BIS proposal to adopt into or update their proposal to include the amendments from IPv4 Soft Landing SD.<br><br></div>I personally agreed with both however pushing a dual agenda seemed to distract us from the danger of the depletion of these resources and is therefore detracting us from the objective of implementing a contemporary soft landing policy.<br><br></div>Best regards<br><br clear="all"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--<span><br>Ismail M. Settenda | PGP DD5470CE<br>General Manager<br>M +255 784 321183 / 0658321183<br>Skype/Twitter/G+: ismailmss</span><br><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B-WIT8x-vTBbNUloejlOa2YzUGhYMTV3MlF5dUZsODlDS1BZ&export=download" width="420" height="86"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2017 at 13:21, Douglas Onyango <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ondouglas@gmail.com" target="_blank">ondouglas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear PDWG members,</div><div>Following today's session, we the authors of the Soft Landing SD Proposal have decided to withdraw it.</div><div><br></div><div>While we feel strongly about the justification for updating the Softlanding Policy, we feel that given the current v4 trend at AFRINIC, our efforts could be moot by the next meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Should members of the community feel that there are provision in this proposal that merit further use-- including in the IPv4 Soft Landing-BIS Proposal -- we welcome you to borrow.</div><div><br></div><div>We would also like to clarify that when we first drafted this proposal we didn't set out to create a second/competing proposal. Our actions were premised on the knowledge that discussions between the two proposals updating the Softlanding Policy at the time had reached an impasse, and that no substantive replacements had been put forward.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">
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