[address-policy-wg] Re: RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure

At 11:01 AM 08-01-04 +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

>People seem to be confused about the meaning of "critical infrastructure"
>so I decided to see what Google has to say. The first thing it comes up
>with is an American government organization called the Department for
>Homeland Security. On their question and answer page they say this:
>http://www.ciao.gov/publicaffairs/qsandas.htm
>
>1.) What is a critical infrastructure?
>
>The USA Patriot Act defines critical infrastructures as those
>"systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the
>United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems
>and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national
>economic security, national public health or safety, or any
>combination of those matters."

Why should Europe and the RIPE region care about what the US defines as 
critical infrastructure?


> >  Es gibt Luegen, verdammte Luegen und RIPE-141(-219)-Netzantraege.
>
>Translated: There are lies, damned lies and RIPE-141 request forms.

It is RIPE-219.  RIPE-141 is dead.


>--Michael Dillon

-Hank