On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Martin Millnert <milln...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Here be dragons, > <snip> >> It should be fairly obvious, by most recently what's going on in >> Egypt, why allowing a government to control the Internet is a Really >> Bad Idea. >> > > how is the egypt thing related to rPKI? > How is the propsed rPKI work related to gov't control? > RPKI is a big knob governments might be tempted to turn.
>> architecturally/technologically *impossible* for a entity from country >> A to via-the-hierarchical-trust-model block a prefix assigned to some >> entity in country B, that is assigned by B's RIR and in full >> accordance with the RIR policies and in no breach of any contract. > > countries do not have RIR's, countries have NIR's... regions have RIR's. RIRs live in countries with governments. RIRs are unlikely to mount a successful challenge against an organization with tanks and mortars. Owen
