42 points emot 1 hour ago 12 comments
cowlevel 54 minutes ago | parent
My concern about RPKI is legal pressure on the registries. By centralising all of Russia's allowed routes on a database server in the Netherlands and automatically enforcing it, it's trivial for the Dutch government to cut off Russia's internet access by tampering with that database.
ggm 46 minutes ago | parent
So a highly specific problem couched in terms of the legal obligations of the registry. But,you ignore the other dimension of WHY a legal authority might require a registry to act.
Do you honestly think the world would be better if there was no international law, or legal constraints on ISPs? Do you think BGP operators are somehow supra legal?
The registry system we live in has operated for almost 3 decades now, an inheritance of a prior informal arrangement. It's a mutuality. If you want to change it, get involved in it's policy process.
adastra22 26 minutes ago | parent
The internet is supposed to be a decentralized network.
daishi55 23 minutes ago | parent
I don’t think that one country should get to unilaterally decide whether another country gets internet, no.
yipinwong 5 minutes ago | parent
This is what happens when someone wants to regulate the crap outta everything. what a dumb ass take.
stouset 46 minutes ago | parent
I get your broader point, but making it potentially easier to cut Russia specifically off from the Internet might not be the worst thing in the world.
mzajc 46 minutes ago | parent
I'm sure there's several ways in which ICANN and RIPE could screw Russia over. I'm also sure (or at least hopeful) they understand this would achieve nothing outside of creating a splinternet.
aftbit 4 minutes ago | parent
Certificate revocation as an act of war... the 2030s are gonna be wild.