[ripe-167] Impressions brought from Moscow meeting

Alexei Platonov wrote:

> According to Sergey Gulchuck:
> >
> > > Many people of ex-USSR countries speak Russian and ( for now ) not so
> > > many speak English ( alas! ). Thus language selection matters something too.
> >
> >    I'm wondering why Moscovites try to decide something for other people.
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^
>                        This is the English translation for "Moskali" ?
>
> May be we shall stop this discussion which is interesting for just a few people
> from the list? The Ukrainian ISPs introduced their coordinated decision
> and in fact you have nothing to add. Or may be you have too much free time ?

Looking at the large number of replies on the [ripe-167] topic I think that number
of people who interested in this discussion is not just "few". Moreover, in this
discussion participating peolple not only from CIS countries, but all over the
Europe.

I'm looking at the discussion and it reminds me a situation in FidoNet at the early
90th. There was a try to separate CIS countries netwokrs from Europe! Our
"independent" Moscow's guys wanted to create Zone 7 for CIS, independend from Zone 2
(Europe) with own Zone Coordinator and all other attributes of power, for example
rights to assign Fido network numbers for geographical regions. Formal reasons was
absolutely the same: language issues, time zone difference etc., etc. Thanks God,
that "coup" was unseccussful.

Now the history repeating, but at this time with Internet. I hope the finish of the
story will be the same.

I want to make clear for the audience the real reason of this "independance
movement": MONOPOLIZATION OF IP NETWORK ADDRESSES ASSIGNMENT IN RUSSIA AND OTHER CIS
COUNTRIES BY ROSNIIROS (RIPN).

RIPN had already monopolized the domain name delegation under ".ru", and the only
thing this they doesn't hove at this time is control under the network addresses.

If they receive this control, can you imagine the amount of money that will be
"informally" squezeed from russian LIR's for the good relationship from the RIPN
side? I can.

Vladimir.


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