* Adam Peake wrote:
Anyway, a question from technical ignorance (as usual :-)). Are there technical implications for the rest of the Internet to causing ASs to become unreachable? The ISOC note covers some issues, but from ICANN/IANA perspective is this a bad thing. If yes, ICANN should comment, as should ALAC
There is an ICANN related aspect with revocation of IP addresses from the global routing as happend in Egypt. The IP addresses given out to the LIRs there are assigned within a policy which requires a useage pattern. By revoking the addresses from the BGP routing, the claimed use pattern is violated and therefore the assignment is not longer permitted.
From the policy point of view (ICANN's remit), the addresses can be claimed back and reassigned at other companies. In the light of shortage of legcay address space, we can't waste IP addresses, but require them to be reused as soon as possible to keep the internet growing and stable.
impact on the global Internet, once all TLDs are DNSSEC signed such blocking might cause problems.
Ack. Blocking is an attack pattern detected by DNSSEC. But it is unrelated to ICANN, despite the fact, that domains without reachable DNS servers does not match the delegation requirments and can be revoked by the registry (following the ICANN policies). So I'd like to propose the following statement: ************************************************************************ Despite it's clearly a sovereign decision of a national state to cut communication channels with the outside world, such a decision has consequences for the political, economic, and private sector. ICANN's remit is to keep the Internet - the leading communication network today - stable. Following ICANN's policy, it's not allowed to keep global identifiers for the purpose of communication while refusing to communicate. ICANN urges the gouvernmental, economic, and private parties to give back there communication identifiers like domain names and IP addresses or restart the necessary communication quickly. ************************************************************************