Fernando,

On Jan 24, 2024, at 3:47 PM, Fernando Frediani <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, 07:39 David Conrad, <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2024, at 4:19 AM, Fernando Frediani <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > No government should ever be able to mandate anything related to policy 
>> > development and how they apply to IP space assignment and use.
>> I’m actually curious: why do you believe you (or the RIRs) are able to tell 
>> governments what they can or cannot mandate?
> 
> 
> I think you are not following this discussion and trying to speak about 
> soemthing different from what is being discussed.

I actually am following the discussion and I am trying to follow your 
argumentation in response to Christopher Hawker that you started with:

"One thing that must end in APNIC is the possibilit for NIR to have their own 
set of policies. This just doesn't make sense, even if they don't conflict with 
APNIC's policies."

As Akinori has pointed out, JPNIC develops its own policies within the APNIC 
policy framework which is, in turn, developed within the framework defined in 
RFC 7020 (and its predecessors).  You state above that NIRs (e.g., JPNIC) must 
not be able to do that, even if those policies “don’t conflict with APNIC 
policies.” Your statement suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the 
relationships between APNIC and the NIRs that I’m trying to understand.

> No government is able in practice to determinate what should be the policies 
> for IP address assignment anywhere. 

Somewhat orthogonal to the proposal, but I remain curious: why do you believe 
this? My understanding is that a government may, in practice, specify pretty 
much anything they like, including policy for IP addressing, for entities 
within their economy.

>> I’m unsure what you mean by this.  Simply, NIRs were (and are, as far as I 
>> know) intended to provide Internet registration services for entities within 
>> their economy. Overarching guidelines for the policies by which those 
>> service are provided are defined within the Internet numbers registry system 
>> (see RFC 7020) but those guidelines do not carry the force of law: they 
>> require the voluntary cooperation of the parties involved to be effective.
> 
> Maybe your conception about NIRs may not be very accurate and the difefence 
> between them and the RIRs and the hierarchy that exists.

Perhaps, although I suspect I have been doing this a bit longer than you. 
Another possibility could be your mental model for how the Internet numbers 
registration system works, as simple and appealing as you may find it or how 
much you’d like it to be so, doesn’t actually fully correspond to reality.

Regards,
-drc

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