[cooperation-wg] RIPE NCC Response to the EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy

I am happy to see that we are all aligned. Let’s keep up and develop 
what we have been doing for decades.

Daniel

On 16 Dec 2020, at 17:15, Patrik Fältström via cooperation-wg wrote:

> On 16 Dec 2020, at 16:29, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Over the last few days, the European Commission has published a 
>> number of proposals and strategy documents that lay out its plans for 
>> the digital economy. These include the Digital Services Act (DSA), 
>> the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and a policy document outlining the 
>> European Union's Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade.
>>
>> We are currently working through these documents to assess their 
>> impact on our operations, the multistakeholder ecosystem and the 
>> Internet at large. However, we’ve already seen that the 
>> cybersecurity strategy document makes a reference to our role as one 
>> of the DNS root server operators based in the EU, with a plan to 
>> "assess the role of these operators in guaranteeing that the Internet 
>> remains globally accessible in all circumstance.”
>>
>> We have issued a short public response to this point in particular, 
>> which you can find here:
>> https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-response-to-the-eu2019s-cybersecurity-strategy-for-the-digital-decade
>>
>> Any feedback you might have on this statement is welcome.
>
> FWIW, as a root server operator being based in the EU we at Netnod 
> fully support what you wrote. Our views are very similar.
>
> Patrik Fältström
> Technical Director and Head of Security
> Netnod