On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
It's not that RIPE NCC is owned by a government or that ROA's or certificates are something that the Dutch government could seize or that an evil government would/could do so (under Dutch law), in order to shutdown the internet or an ISP.. There are far better (more effective) ways of doing so, if you remember what happened in Egypt / Libya etc.. Power down datacenter (y/n) ...
The egyptian ex-government had to ring each SP and tell them to pull their advertisements. At least one of whom (for a while) appears to have told them to go shite. Having a central authority (especially one that's beholden to 20+ governments via the EU) makes that *much* easier.
I'm all pro-choice and that also means that I don't like it if someone is taking my choice away ...
As long as the choice actually exists - in practice. rgds, Sascha Luck