Le mardi 01 février 2011 à 13:20 -0800, Owen DeLong a écrit : > 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.
Yes, right. But RIR is (at least supposed to be) regional, so (hopefully) more stable from a policy point of view (since the number of national "stake holders" need to agree on a common policy). In theory, at least... mh > > Owen > >
