> On Feb 19, 2026, at 4:57 PM, Tony Li <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > A first draft did ask IANA for this, however, I have been told that I was > grossly inappropriate and that I had to ask the RIR communities. So here I > am.
Tony - To be quite clear, the earlier draft that I saw suggested "IANA designate an RIR” –– I don’t believe that I used the phrase “grossly inappropriate” or that’s another reviewer, but yes, I did indicate that there are actually some processes involved with delegation of RIR regions, and it would be better if the document read something like: "This document requests that IANA work with the Internet numbers registry community to provide for issuance of general purpose IP number resources for outer space in accordance with this document.” > We would like one RIR to manage this block. I suspect that if no one else > volunteers, that ARIN will take up this mantle. Is that ok with RIPE? So general purpose IPv4 address blocks are issued to RIRs accordingly global number resource policy, and then there’s some “regional" policy regarding from the block to the individual ISPs/LIPs. How exactly that happens for this new “region” is something that the ISP community should probably discuss. There’s an entire set of services (RADP, IRR, RPKI, reverse DNS, etc.) that operators may expect to be operating for these new allocations which need to be looked into, and then the manner of governance for same. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers p.s. As "I suspect that if no one else volunteers, that ARIN will take up this mantle.” – I don’t know about other RIRs, but ARIN would only take on additional duties if there was clarity on what was being asked, and then our members or Board gave indication that we should do so. As such, I have no idea if ARIN would perform such a role, since what’s involved in presently speculative. ----- To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription options, please visit: https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/address-policy-wg.ripe.net/ As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. More details at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3-migration/
