PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge:

At issue in this case is the process by which an arbitral award issued by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ("ICSID") is to be recognized and converted into a federal court judgment. ICSID is a unique arbitral tribunal. Created pursuant to an international treaty, the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States ("the ICSID Conventioe), ICSID addresses disputes involving international investments in which one party is a foreign sovereign. The United States has been a treaty member since 1966, when the ICSID Convention entered into force and Congress passed enabling legislation.

Conversion of an arbitral award into a judgment allows a creditor to begin to enforce the award, for instance, by attaching or executing on assets. And the enabling statute for the ICSID Convention, 22 U.S.C. § 1650a, contemplates that federal courts will recognize ICSID awards and enforce them. However, § 1650a does not specify the process by which a creditor is to convert its ICSID award into a federal court judgment. Must the creditor bring a plenary action, subject to the ordinary requirements of service of process, personal jurisdiction over the award debtor, and venue? Or may a more streamlined process be used?