[address-policy-wg] global coordination (was: 2012-01)

On Apr 14, 2012, at 10:39 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> 	Global coordination of a "commons" that is done on regional and national basis.

As has been noted, there already is a successfully working process for 
submission of global policies in the Internet number registry system  
In fact, I pointed that fact out specifically to Milton the other day - 
<http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/04/06/the-coming-trade-war-in-ip-address-blocks/#comment-1031>

Whether one first seeks regional policies, gains experiences and awareness 
of the issues and then seeks consensus on a global policy, or one simply goes 
for the global policy from the beginning is a matter of personal preference.  
If there are lessons in global process to be learned from other bodies, then 
I'd love to hear of them, but such seems independent to the consideration of
draft policies already underway in the regions under existing processes.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN