So the Internet numbers community is made of up of regions, and the community in each region organizes itself into an RIR…

Ok, so which region does Mars fall into?

Each RIR community has a service organization (their RIR) which has services and fees, governed by a member-elected body.

In addition, each community has a policy development process where they establish and update registry policies.

Agencies may want to "place address space requests for outer space” but it’s a little more than that - self-governance of Internet

number resources mean that they will need to participate in these things in order to to make sure that it meets their needs.

That’s a tall bar that you’re setting. Does every ISP today have to participate?

If they want to use an existing RIR for such, that’s great - that RIR’s community will establish appropriate policies, fees, and

services. If they want to establish a new RIR,, that’s also a great option, and the resulting RIR (once recognized) will perform

these functions. As to whether that’s just "a detail”, I would say it is not - since the choice will determine how you go about

getting the policy that you need established.

Does that help clarify things?

Not really. They are mission focused. Their requirement is address space. Full stop. They have about as much interest interest in RIR policies as my kids do.

Tony