Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root

Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root by petre on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:36PM (#27109928)

> You can even enforce vendors to only include EU roots when selling devices in the EU

Please don't give them ideas. Not even the Kremlin has done that, although they did something similar with geolocation devices.

Otherwise I fully agree. If the EU wants to audit, they should establish their own root server infrastructure, pay for it and audit that. If I was a root server operator providing what is essentially a free service and this was enforced on me, I'd rather shut down or block EU netblocks than be bothered by EU cyber security auditors.

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Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root by martimarkov on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:08PM (#27111481)

I mean if it’s done in the right way and actually hosted by universities with high reputation: Oxford/Cambridge/Southampton (obvs not in Europe anymore but it illustrates my point) then I think it might be okay. Nothing wrong with making sure dns works in Europe if all other dns roots fail.

The implementation part will be tricky but not impossible. Heck ipv6 is still not rolled out and we actually need it. Do you think they will be able to do this faster?

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