Hi, On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 01:15:12PM +0300, sdy@a-n-t.ru wrote:
I would like to understand what RIPE NCC will do if, at the next round of sanctions, access to the cloud or mail servers becomes completely closed from a number of countries, for example Russia. We have already faced the fact that a huge number of Western services have limited access to their resources and as the war with the Russian Federation is lost, the number of blockages is only growing.
I fully agree with Timo, but Dimitry brings up another important issue: Sanctions. Russia is not the only country in the RIPE NCC service area that is being targeted with sanctions, and I can imagine much more problematic scenarios for sanctions, too. In analogy to other sanctions, where eg a German drugstore chain suddenly found themselves without Paypal due to them selling some Cuban cigars, I could imagine the RIPE NCC being pressured to not serve those "unfriendly countries" anymore, or that RIPE NCC members who do have dealings with any "unfriendly country", eg. possibly China in the near future, will be blackmailed, or, if that fails, that RIPE NCC will be blackmailed to cut off those members. Just saying. From my point of view, RIPE NCC should operate as autonomous and as much based on Open Source, as possible. I'm not sure about how "the cloud" saves money, and how much, but for all the things that a RIPE NCC guy mentioned below, I am aware of imho low-maintenance Free Software products that could be used, and for fluctuating workloads, one could investigate whether batching might be a solution. There's Open Source software for that as well. Kind regards, Toni Müller