[members-discuss] RIPEdb registry need to be ready for separating?

W dniu 14.03.2022 o 16:46, Serg Galat pisze:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I found some strange scheme -
> https://twitter.com/EvgeniiBender/status/1502709009408835589?s=20&t=PSGBvgccyYeUB03ZpDPQug
> 
> If this is true, Russian LIR must be already registered in those structures.
> 
> Can anyone confirm or disprove the existence of such events?
> 

Putin has been preparing for this for some time - they don't want to be 
cut off completely, because they want to attack the civilized world, but 
they want to control the access to keep Russians in the dark. See: 
"Great Firewall of China".

I'm a bit uncertain about what steps should be taken... on one hand 
decent Russians need access to real information. On the other hand - 
those who are able to see the truth are already convinced and are either 
hiding or fleeing the country. The rest is, I am afraid, beyond any 
reason - they are rejecting inconvenient facts even from their own 
family members. AND they will be attacking "the evil west". In fact they 
are attacking already - from the necessity I started to block off whole 
Russian (and Chinese) IP blocks from my network because they were 
attempting brute-force attacks not from a single IP but from hundreds of 
IPs simultaneously - so it was evidently a coordinated action from those 
particular Russian and Chinese ISPs, not just individual hackers.

I would want to keep Russia connected in (naive?) hope of making the 
truth available to Russians (via VPNs) but... cutting Russia off 
completely would reduce security risks. And all those ex-Russian IPv4s 
free again would be a bonus.

Cogent has already cut its backbone connection to Russia:
https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/inside-cogents-decision-to-curtail-russias-access-to-the-internet/

So please convince me what is the better course of action.

BTW: recently if I write anything on this mailing list some Russian 
service providers want to set up some account for me at their cloud - it 
became so bothersome I had to block those domains at the mail server level.

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