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I wasn't always a fan of globalization, but worse than globalization would be to have two different global worlds. There has to be another way.
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Who gets to decide if someone abuses their power? For example the UN did not authorize the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Do you think Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not a violation of Uk sovereignty? Is that not an abuse of their power?
This would be the end of the ICANN as every country would begin to move to doing its “own DNS” stuff.
The 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.
Is it possible to get a copy of a root server’s info somehow without doing a recursive lookup on every TLD?
AXFR global DNS zone transfer Usually blocked at the top level root server. However there have been incidents where such servers are misconfigured and allow it.
I totally get the sentiment, but it will be the worst thing that west can do right now. Russia been practicing and preparing for a while to "sovereign internet", i.e. total disconnect from rest of the internet and operating independently. If ICANN/RIPE will shut things down, it will give to Russian government excellent excuse to totally disconnect from rest of the world
I sure will miss the balanced perspectives Russian trolls and bot farms bring.
From Bill Woodcock who first posted this email: "In the short-term, this is a bad plan because it would cut the Russian man-on-the-street off from international news and perspectives, leaving them with only what the Russian government chooses to tell them. That's not a great way to decrease Russian public support for the war. In the long-term, this would set the precedent that small industry associations in Los Angel…
how does removing .ru dns cut the russian man-on-the-street from interational news and perspectives. dns is not ip addresses. all that means is russian websites would stop working via normal dns, not that ip addresses would stop routing and non .ru would continue to resolve normally. the only thing I can imagine is that it would cut them off because russia et al would then take the step to cut them off (which they so…
A “man on the street” isn’t browsing via IP address, and in the modern days of TLS SNI, you practically can’t just type in IP addresses to visit websites anyway. Names matter.
From Bill Woodcock who first posted this email: "In the short-term, this is a bad plan because it would cut the Russian man-on-the-street off from international news and perspectives, leaving them with only what the Russian government chooses to tell them. That's not a great way to decrease Russian public support for the war. In the long-term, this would set the precedent that small industry associations in Los Angel…
how does removing .ru dns cut the russian man-on-the-street from interational news and perspectives. dns is not ip addresses. all that means is russian websites would stop working via normal dns, not that ip addresses would stop routing and non .ru would continue to resolve normally. the only thing I can imagine is that it would cut them off because russia et al would then take the step to cut them off (which they so…
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Who gets to decide if someone abuses their power? For example the UN did not authorize the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Do you think Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not a violation of Uk sovereignty? Is that not an abuse of their power?
This is why the US stood by when Russia rolled into Crimea, because we knew we were in the wrong and that was the price we had to pay (giving up Crimea to Russia) in order to keep "our guys" in control in Ukraine. It's also why the "Russian Collusion" thing was blown up in 2016. None of these events happened in a vacuum.
Not passing judgement on which is side has the most legitimate grievance, just providing context that seems to be skipped over when this matter comes up.
[1] https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-go...
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Do you think Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not a violation of Uk sovereignty? Is that not an abuse of their power?
I think the argument is that the Ukrainian coup in 2014[1] which was financed and fomented by foreign actors (CIA up to their old tricks), means that the current government is not only illegitimate, but put in power by Russian adversaries specifically to threaten their security. This is why the US stood by when Russia rolled into Crimea, because we knew we were in the wrong and that was the price we had to pay (givin…