Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
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Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
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#3only place where this should happen is China since they have a billion IPs that only connect within china anyways
Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
#4This would be the end of the ICANN as every country would begin to move to doing its “own DNS” stuff.
Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
#5While I think this is an interesting option to consider, wouldn't changing global DNS mostly impact users external to Russia? Would .ru still resolve inside Russia?
Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
#6This is a bad idea as it will not only harm Russia. It will also break (possibly critical) services in other countries consuming a service hosted on a .ru domain (for example, a Yandex API).
Also I'm not sure how ICANN can contribute to revoking TLS certificates.
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#7Seems like Putin prepared for this scenario in the last year or two? There were articles about how they were testing an isolated Internet scenario.
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#8The Ukrainian govt will try anything they possibly can and all props to them. But the rest of the world needs to be very very careful how we handle such a delicate situation.
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#9The request to RIPE NCC is even more extreme, seems like that would completely cut Russia off any access to the Internet?
Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)
#10Is this verified?