and i do not buy the assumption that the rirs need no oversight, just as i do not buy that the iana does. and i do not buy that these policy fora mailing lists provide that oversight any more than i buy that the equivalent ones in icann provide the same for the iana. So what are your proposals to improve the system, then?
what's broken? the rirs watch the lirs. iana watches the rirs. icann watches the iana.
I agree with you that ICANN doesn't work.
you are agreeing with a statement i did not make. i may have 'issues' with the icann, but in general they have not managed to break the internet as much as a lot of other players.
As for the RIPE NCC, at least in the last few years, things have been reasonably well
and in the next few years? things go in cycles. that is why we should be relatively conservative and have oversight and cooperation.
IPv6 things have been too conservative
oh, you have run out of space?
and too slow
i thought you said that ripe was working well?
but overall "a situation people can live with". Which is pretty much the most that can be expected from such a sort of "sort-of grass-roots buerocracy".
i just don't buy the 'grass roots' stuff for the rirs any more than i buy it for icann or the government in washington dc. wake up and smell the coffee; this is not the internet of our youth. randy