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Re: A top-down RPKI model a threat to human freedom? (was Re: Level 3's IRR Database)


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:14:47 -0500

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.


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