[address-policy-wg] 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region) going to Last Call

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