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>After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukranian Vice Prime Minister asked ICANN to suspend ccTLDs associated with Russia. What's the point of ccTL
by vdaea 3y ago
>After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukranian Vice Prime Minister asked ICANN to suspend ccTLDs associated with Russia.
What's the point of ccTLDs if the US, a potential enemy, can still pull the rug out from under your feet?
- Macha 3y agoHere's what happens if it goes ahead. Russia (and allied countries) ISPs update their config to point to root servers that do resolve .ru and .su, and they can then fallback to the usual servers for the rest of the world. And hey, maybe now they have that infra, they decide that in Russia, whitehouse.gov points somewhere else now
- trimethylpurine 3y agoThey expect that the US won't do that because it would violate Americans' expectations about good and evil.
- lpribis 3y agoSure, the US has never done _anything_ that violates expectations about good and evil.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoOf course they have. But in Western countries governments still need to sell their position to the public or it will typically cost them an election. So, typically, it's safe to expect on simple issues like letting Libya keep their ccTLD that they won't bother. The article gave another example about Ukraine where, as expected, they didn't bother.
- kube-system 3y agoAnybody can ask anyone to suspend a ccTLD. Doesn't mean they're going to do it.