<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would go so far as to say that not only is global policy not a quick fix, it is neither quick and rarely a “fix”.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Instead, it is the only available tool for the community to govern the interaction between the IANA and the</div><div class="">RIRs and serves little or no purpose beyond that very limited scope. To the best of my knowledge, there</div><div class="">have been very few global policies that have come to fruition. The only two I can remember in the 15+</div><div class="">years I’ve been actively involved in internet number resource policy are the one regarding the last /8s.</div><div class=""><div>and the one which took the IANA->RIR allocation unit for IPv6 to /12 (IIRC it had previously been /15).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 29, 2021, at 01:10 , Mike Silber <<a href="mailto:silber.mike@gmail.com" class="">silber.mike@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for the important clarification Owen<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Global policy is very often misunderstood and seen as a “quick fix” when it is actually the opposite.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jun 2021, at 09:30, Owen DeLong via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class="">3.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>(not so simple) An organization which has multiple headquarters in multiple countries around the world and which has a significant global network</div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>infrastructure.</div><div class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">...it sounds as this interesting usecase </div><div dir="auto" class="">requires a *global* policy [1]...i don't </div><div dir="auto" class="">figure well a *regional* RIR fit to offer </div><div dir="auto" class="">that kind of *global* service...i might be wrong </div><div dir="auto" class="">though :-/ but still open to learn, fortunately.</div><div dir="auto" class="">__</div><div dir="auto" class="">[1]: <<a href="https://nro.net/policy/global" class="">https://nro.net/policy/global</a>></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>This is a misunderstanding of what a global policy is and how the global policy process works.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Global policies don’t govern how RIRs issue address space. Global policies govern how the IANA interacts with RIRs and how</div><div class="">resources are issued to RIRs from the global free pool (and/or how RIRs can return them to IANA). An example of a global</div><div class="">policy would be the last 5 /8s issued 1 to each RIR.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The reality is that the norm for many years has been for such companies to choose to work with one or more of the RIRs in</div><div class="">one or more of the regions where they have nexus in a manner that is convenient and functional for the company in question.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">L</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>