In the very near future there is a good chance of being able to navigate around the world using one or more of the radio navigation aids currently being implemented. Navigators the world over have long dreamt of a reliable, global, all weather navigational tool and this is now within their grasp. This paper discusses some of the administrative tasks that must be accomplished to make the navigator's dream come true. There are a multitude of radio navigational aids, so many in fact that the U.S. Government has become critical of the technical and user community for the proliferation of these systems. However for global radio navigation the field is narrowed considerably, there being only five contenders.