And there in lies the crux of problem---by being in international waters it matters not if all the "good guys" agree on a procedure. It only takes one AH to screw the pooch---and I can think of a few of them
The engineering issues are straight forward---the political issues are the more difficult.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis