[address-policy-wg] Legal counsel on 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region)

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Sander Steffann wrote:

> In the absence of such legislation, a court cannot order the revocation 
> of certificates.

In several countries, we've seen courts ordering ISPs to block 
accessibility to certain sites involving not using DNS names (denmark and 
thepiratebay.org for instance, or the domain names transferred to US 
authorities just a few months ago) or block access IP-wise (Black Internet 
in Sweden). I am sure there was no specific law handling this, but the 
laws at least in these countries are flexible enough that other laws can 
be used to order things around.

> Of course laws can change, but the advice above may address some of the 
> concerns raised about the RPKI infrastructure.

It's good that it has been answered for dutch law, I wonder what 
equivalent question would have been answered in Sweden and Denmark or the 
US 5 years ago.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se