[address-policy-wg] Legal counsel on 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region)

Hi,

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Rob Evans <rhe at nosc.ja.net> wrote:
>> Stop using them :)  If it's not an LEA forcing you to do something then
>> you always have this choice.
>
> ...and this is a point worth stressing.  If things do "go bad," it isn't the
> end of the Internet, but we can bail on using the RPKI as it is implemented
> at the time.  It's all about co-operation. :-)

What's the required escape velocity for the world to bail on RPKI if
it is universally deployed?  DNSSEC?
A significant hurdle I believe, meaning not just a little but a
substantial abuse must be on-going to reach that point. It's the
inverse network effect.

To me it seems you are both suggesting that we should start developing
an alternative that we can bail to already, so that there is an actual
meaningful exit strategy.
  What I'm wondering is, if the alternative is better than the
original, why not go to it directly? Enabling a technology that
enables an unfortunate legal lock-down, for example, is a grave error.
At least in my book.

Kind Regards,
Martin