Global council of registries???

Rudolph J. Geist supposedly said:
> 
> 
> The point is not that all their information should be made available.  
> The point is that there are certain portions of an ISPs application that 
> should be subject to attack by other ISPs before that ISP gets numbers. 

Absolutely not.  Busineess competition should not in *any* way be possible
in the review process.

> Do you not agree that before an ISP gets space, it should have to prove 
> certain technical characteristics.  And do you not agree that it is 
> arbitrary and capricious if say, a very large allocation somehow goes to 
> an ISP with no technical plan.  And do you not agree that there is a 

Of course such a scenrio is capricious and should never be allowed to happen.

> substantial possibility of this happening behind a single closed door 
> organization.  Now, don't you agree that if there was a check on this in 
> the form of peer review (i.e, some proprietary information is required 
> to be made available to justify technical qualification and need to 
> receive IPs,) there would be less likelihood of impropoer allocations.
> 

Possibly, but it also opens the door for countless other bads to weight
the good that might come of it.  The real solution is to have a competnent
technical staff that has its own internal checks and balances, where
multiple people review decisions.  This coupled with regular outside
independent audits and a well defined appeal policy should produce the same
good results without the host of bad ones.


--->  Phil