[address-policy-wg] 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region) going to Last Call
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Sascha Luck
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Wed May 4 17:57:13 CEST 2011
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'm all pro-choice and that also means that I don't like it if > someone is taking my choice away ... As long as the choice actually exists - in practice. rgds, Sascha Luck
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