On Feb 20, 2026, at 12:52 PM, Tony Li <[email protected]> wrote: Hi John,
On Feb 20, 2026, at 3:42 AM, John Curran - jcurran at istaff.org <[email protected]> wrote: There’s multiple ways to make this work - E.g. a new RIR for the “region” - simple enough - form an RIR per ICP-2 (or the new RIR Governance doc), get organized, and then apply for recognition. Or just make use of an existing RIR and apply under their existing policies for ISPs/LIRs as necessary to get the space needed. Either of these work - as the Internet Number Registry System is more than a table of entries; it’s a mechanism for the community come together, interact and self-govern operation of an actual system - and either approach provides clarity of who the community is, and how applicable policies are established and updated. Either approach allow for the operators to interact with the rest of the community - fairly important for making sure services RDAP and RPKI work across the entire registry. The approach that lacks clarity is what Tony seems to propose - there’s would be a new region with a distinct set of policies and set of operators but they not have an RIR governance model (ala ICP-2/RIR Governance doc) or any interaction with this community…. They’d be run by an existing RIR as if they were a distinct RIR, but minus the community and the governance model. I apologize for not being clear. Let me see if I can do better. The point is to have a single point of contact where agencies can place address space requests for outer space. Whether that is an existing or new RIR is a detail. The goal is aggregation for efficient routing. How do we get there? If I need to say something differently, please send text. Tony - So the Internet numbers community is made of up of regions, and the community in each region organizes itself into an RIR… Each RIR community has a service organization (their RIR) which has services and fees, governed by a member-elected body. In addition, each community has a policy development process where they establish and update registry policies. Agencies may want to "place address space requests for outer space” but it’s a little more than that - self-governance of Internet number resources mean that they will need to participate in these things in order to to make sure that it meets their needs. If they want to use an existing RIR for such, that’s great - that RIR’s community will establish appropriate policies, fees, and services. If they want to establish a new RIR,, that’s also a great option, and the resulting RIR (once recognized) will perform these functions. As to whether that’s just "a detail”, I would say it is not - since the choice will determine how you go about getting the policy that you need established. Does that help clarify things? /John
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