Hello, On 12/2/24 11:07 AM, Niels Dettenbach via members-discuss wrote:
So unfortunately, at least a growing "political" geoblocking is reality today and should at least be taken into account by RIPEs operations (i.e. by contractual elements which guarantee no geoblocking in the whole RIPE area or similiar and/or fallbacks against sanctions in a part of the RIPE service area).
this is not a realistic requirement... RIPE can't be above the law. And such blocking can be (and in many cases is) forced by law / goverments / etc... and provider cannot make excuses based on contract with RIPE. And besides, there are other contracts - for example in the media world, where geoblocking is also often required. A contractual ban by RIPE would only mean that the content wouldn't be available online at all, while today it is available at least in a geographically defined region. I don't think this is the way to solve anything. - Daniel