[members-discuss] RIPE NCC and the geopolitical situation

* Sascha Luck [ml] <ripe-md at c4inet.net> [2018-04-17 18:11]:
> All,
> 
> the recent discussion about moving the NCC and the relative
> political stability of countries in the service region has
> caused me to think about the RIPE NCC in the current political
> context. THere appears to be an incipient issue here:

As the RIPE NCC has shown in the past, it tries its best to remain
neutral and not interfere in political conflicts. I also assume that
sanctions blocking or revoking resources would conflict with efforts
to declare access to the internet a human right on EU and UN levels.
Therefore I don't think it's very likely this will happen.

*If* such sanctions would be implemented I expect them to be
implemented on an ISP level, e.g. forcing big (national) telcos to
block communication with the sanctioned country. Revoking resources in
a database like RIPE NCC's has no direct technical impact.

Also if there should be a time when this happens, moving the RIPE NCC
to Switzerland or Sweden would probably not change anything as these
countries regularly implement non-military EU sanctions.

As most people before me I'm against any relocation of the RIPE NCC as
there is no clear indication that this would improve anything from the
status quo.

Regards

Sebastian

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