[address-policy-wg] 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region) going to Last Call
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Brian Nisbet
brian.nisbet at heanet.ie
Wed May 4 18:24:12 CEST 2011
On 04/05/2011 16:57, Sascha Luck wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Erik Bais wrote: >> It's not that RIPE NCC is owned by a government or that ROA's or >> certificates are something that the Dutch government could seize or >> that an evil government would/could do so (under Dutch law), in order >> to shutdown the internet or an ISP.. There are far better >> (more effective) ways of doing so, if you remember what happened in >> Egypt / Libya etc.. Power down datacenter (y/n) ... > > The egyptian ex-government had to ring each SP and tell them to pull > their advertisements. At least one of whom (for a while) appears to have > told them to go shite. > > Having a central authority (especially one that's beholden to 20+ > governments via the EU) makes that *much* easier. I really don't think it does. You seem to be imagining a scenario where a national governement would just ring up the NCC and say, "revoke these certs." I have seen no evidence to suggest this risk is anything close to real. I suspect that a for profit global megacorp running such a certification system would be far more vulnerable to such measures, but even then, I don't see this as a large risk. Brian.
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