> It is crucial that the RIPE NCC remains neutral and does not take positions with regard to domestic political disputes, international conflicts or war.
> Failure to adhere to this approach would jeopardise the very model that has been key to the development of the Internet in our service region.
I could imagine it can withdraw all the IPs assigned to Russia and Belarus. What would be the consequences if so? Perhaps the collapse of the whole Internet in Russia and Belarus, as ISPs will not be able to provide their services and all websites hosted there will see their URLs being disconnected from their IPs?
The fact is that the people of Russia need to feel incredible pressure. Their lives must become incredibly difficult. Unbearable even. It's the cleanest way out of this.
Mmmmkay. Bit much on the blowing up the house to put out the fire. Personally, there are still a few nuts that deserve to flourish over there. SciHub being one of my chief concerns.
I am literally in the middle of making another backup of my copy of Scihub, this time to LTO tape.
If Russia feels too much pressure and goes into complete isolation from the West there is nothing too lose anymore and the conflict can easily escalate beyond Ukraine.
US/Europe want to avoid this due to the huge disruption it would bring economically (gas shortages etc) and the end of any hope for a diplomatic resolution.
I'd personally support more measures, but it's not as clear cut as one might assume.
We still have to share a continent, and pushing Russia into the arms of China can have huge long lasting ramifications.
But Russia could just allocate IPs as they see fit inside their network and coordinate with friendly countries on routing arrangements. Although things would obviously get difficult for third parties if the IPs are assigned to other entities.
It would be a huge disruption though.