Why Now?
Accelerate
Policies and coordination frameworks can accelerate the development of an ecosystem. Addressing jurisdictional questions and developing recognized frameworks will enable operational and financial confidence.
Sustain
Large scale infrastructure is a precursor to sustained presence, which cannot happen without coordination. A lack of common vocabulary, accepted policy analogs, and reference implementations hinders easy collaboration, adds time, and increases the cost of activity.
Precedents
History has given us good examples of how we might want to do things differently, but responding to that requires building alternatives. The implications of our actions today warrant reflection.