[governance] PP: India wants to abolish BGP and introduce national routing and IP management

[McTim]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:


<snip>

> I was just referring to the fact that the RIRs are defined as
> representing a set of nation states.


I don't think that is a fact in evidence at all.

RIRs can "represent" their Members, certainly.  In international fora
such as the ITU, I think RIRs "represent" their policy communities and
their Membership.

I don't think they purport to represent anyone else, certainly not nation states

One doesn't have to live in a region to participate in the policy
making of that regions RIR.

Entities can be HQed outside the geo region that makes up a RIR and
still get resources from that RIR.  So a US CDN can get RIPE resources
or a Indian Tier 1 can get resources from the ARIN region, etc.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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