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

[Daniel Kalchev]

An easy explanation of this arbitrary division is that it's based on
convenience. This includes geographical distances, but also cultural and
languages spoken reasons. People do group naturally for such reasons.

In any case, the thing is, those RIRs and Internet resource allocation
are not constituted on political borders.

Daniel

On 01.11.14 19:44, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> If one wants to pursue the "geographic region" line of reasoning then
> we have to note that Mexico, although located in North America, is a
> member of LACNIC.
> 
> All these constructs are messy, though not overly so -- is the problem
> ARIN v. LACNIC, or Latin America v. North America?
> 
> But it's still accurate that the five RIRs are defined as a collection
> of specific nation-states (a few exceptions, mostly territories etc)
> roughly within five geographic loci.
> 

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