a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would be for the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued by the iana, put up a pingable for that space and announce it on the lists so we can all test BEFORE someone uses space from that block. ARIN meeting happens in Orlando in about 1 month from now. There is at least one open mike session on the agenda and there is also a new policy workshop if folks think that this practice needs to be made into a formal policy.
it doesn't. it's not policy. it's a simple ops hack. let's not see how complex we can make it or how much bureaucrazy we can wrap around it. it seems that even bureaucrazy ripe managed to do it without holding policy discussions; see henk's posting. randy