[136132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A top-down RPKI model a threat to human freedom? (was Re: Level
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Tue Feb 1 12:19:24 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=vLoYD4FZFSUryYZOJOFYhq_62Fk9Dop2pqEy@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:14:47 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Martin Millnert <millnert@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?
> 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.
