As a starting point for a designated organization, you would need to have a segment of the aviation community that has demonstrated a certain maturity and an outstanding safety record under the existing regulatory regime. They have to be mature enough to incorporate the infrastructure that would allow them to do the oversight of the community for which they have stewardship, or the extra layer of oversight.
In our minds, those are some of the conditions that would exist--and naturally a mature SMS system—before you could consider—