<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="">Hi Sylvain<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jun 2021, at 12:23, Sylvain Baya <<a href="mailto:abscoco@gmail.com" class="">abscoco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Dear PDWG,<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 29 juin 2021 8:30 AM, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> a écrit :<br class=""></div><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=""><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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" 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=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Hi Owen,</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks for your kick response brother :-)</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">...i appreciate that you took time to </div><div dir="auto" class="">explain these *simple* things i started to </div><div dir="auto" class="">better understand, by carefully reading </div><div dir="auto" class="">existing historical materials, few months ago :-)</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">You know, i'm still learning brother ;-)</div><div dir="auto" class="">so, don't care to teach me :-)</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">...but, it appears that you failed to get my </div><div dir="auto" class="">point here (please don't get me wrong again):</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""> my suggestion was not to propose a global policy, which could fix a global problem in imposing rules for RIRs to apply...i was sure you will understand it, as you understand how the global policy development process works.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">We should first agree that the problem you want to fix is certainly not a regional problem. Why try to fix it within RIR•s?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">If I understand your proposal correctly, you are suggesting that certain entities would be able to obtain resources directly from the IANA? Does this not make either the IANA or the recipient a type of non-regional-RIR? In which case it would need to follow the process outlined in ICP-2.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is an interesting edge case, as it would involve the IANA and potentially involve the RIRs in endorsing the rules …. so could conceivably be shoehorned under the rubric of a global policy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would need to see a fleshed out proposal with a lot more detail before I express an opinion, however I do agree that my initial knee-jerk reaction that this is not global policy may not have been correct.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am also not sure that such a proposal would pass a sanity check under ICP-2 or the ASO MoU with ICANN, but happy to comment once there is more detail provided.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Needless to say, I think the prospects of such a proposal becoming global policy are slim to none, but not bad as a thought experiment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>