[ncc-services-wg] Protecting Resource Holders in Distressed Areas

I believe the RIPE NCC already makes extra steps when a request does
not appear to be legitimate, therefore I don't think there is much else
that can be done although cryptography could be used to reduce the
risks of impersonation.

However, I am vigorously against asking national governments for their
participation, with special mention for the Ukrainian government.

In general, governments are not fond of systems that allow people to
communicate in p2p without interferences, however the Ukrainian
government is a particularly ferocious enemy of the Internet and it is
important the RIPE NCC does not allow them any interference in how
resource allocation is organized.

Also, appeal to emotion is being used by some people trying to pretend
to be some sorts of heroes or white knights of Ukraine by insinuating
that the hijacking could only necessarily be perpetuated by Russian
invaders as if there were not hoarders in Ukraine just as capable of
doing this without any support from Russia. There is anyway a strong
incentive for this to happen in both countries as IPv6 is practically
inexistent but the remains of a bygone era when the development of the
Internet was thriving in both countries resulted in a lot of resources
being allocated there.

Also, I back Max Tulyev's comment, it is important to repeat that
Ukraine is a country where there is no freedom of speech, no free
press, no political opposition, not even fake opposition, and no
democracy. In fact, any critic of the government will result in
yourself being labeled an enemy of Ukraine, a collaborator, a terrorist
or as a person justifying the invasion. This can result in your
arbitrary arrest or worse. The government also uses terror such as the
Martial Law to deter people from having the slightest ambition to
criticize them.

Other violations of human rights and the constitution perpetrated by
the government of Ukraine include attacking ISPs that provide free and
neutral Internet, persecuting their owners and employees, threatening
to label them as collaborators and trying to shut them shutdown.

Ukraine has an agency called NKRZI, a clone of Russia's roskomnadzor,
dedicated to this activity. Public threats to ISPs can be found at
their web site.

As such, the credibility and legitimacy of requests coming from persons
and entities from Ukraine using emotional speech with rambling about
democracy and freedom and claiming to be representative of the whole
community should be questioned and challenged.

In fact, I consider it a waste to allocate public resources to those
who lack basic understanding for the ethics involved in operating an
ISP. And if I were an extremist and dicatator, I would revoke resources
that have been allocated to them and I think we would recover a lot of
space.