[address-policy-wg] LACNIC "Proposal to create a Global Internet Registry (GIR)"

> On 26 Mar 2018, at 14:21, Malcolm Hutty <malcolm at linx.net> wrote:
> 
> The real meat of proposing a GIR is saying "let's have a new institution, that has
> 
> - THIS structure
> - THIS funding model
> - THIS secretariat/support/NCC equivalent
> - THIS type of PDP
> - THIS model for who participates in the PDP (both in theory and practice)
> etc.
> 
> Until you have a proposal (at least in outline) for what that looks
> like, you don't *have* a proposal at all, just a vague idea of address
> management by Coca-Cola*.

Indeed.

IIRC the same points were made when there were vague proposals about the ITU becoming an RIR ~10 years ago. Those proposals were a bad idea then. So’s this LACNIC proposal now. And for many of the same reasons. Sigh.