ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]

Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by ukraineally on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:23AM (#30540630)

You can't remove Russia from the internet unless you remove literally all their neighbours. Kazakhstan for example has how many links in and out of Russia? Do they not have the sovereign decision to make those connections? You can't just cut Russia off.

I think the 1 decision that could be made by the Sanctioning countries... At the big tier 1 peering exchanges you could blacklist all of Russia. Don't have to worry about cyber attacks coming from Russia directly anymore.

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by shabier on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:26AM (#30540662)

Cyberattacks are not limited to borders or geolocation- it can be sent/executed from anywhere at all times. And, like the letter mentioned, the request wasn't to "remove" Russia from the internet but rather restricting access to the routing towards Russian sites.

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Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr... by ukraineally on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:25AM (#30541402)

>Cyberattacks are not limited to borders or geolocation- it can be sent/executed from anywhere at all times. And, like the letter mentioned, the request wasn't to "remove" Russia from the internet but rather restricting access to the routing towards Russian sites.

Yes I know. That's why i said 'directly from', sure attacks will be proxied through bots or whatever.

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