Digital sovereignty becoming a thing. EU needs to go further - erect its own Great Firewall, protect and nurture EU native tech. 400 million people cannot be dependent on an internet controlled by foreigners
The problem I have is 2 fold.
1. We need more distributed services and less reliance on that silly country full of absolute dunderheads I am not allowed to be mean to on this service.
2. We ALSO need to safeguard freedom of communication BETWEEN countries, lest a series of bad events leads to a bunch of countries going permanently dark.
The BGP bomb isnt frightening because you might be left without root service nodes, its frightening because there are people in other countries we get great value out of communicating with.
We have something like this with phone numbers (dial 9 for outside line) and domains but not with IP addresses. The "internet" used to have it with bang paths.
Flat addressing is very good and convenient, but political turmoil easily destroys it, as Russia has already seen and the US is about to see.
(Cryptographic flat addresses don't suffer political problems but have different problems with scalability)
It would solve NAT, too.
As much as I love ENS I didnt propose a flat structure. I just think we can have our cake (hierarchies) and eat it to (Not have the yanks at the top/root of those heirarchies)
https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores
I'd say most of my privacy is being invaded by US companies, I can trust my insurance company isn't buying health data through third parties about me and such.
The Access and Assistance bill lets government ministers compel companies to create backdoors verbally with no recourse. Jailtime if they let anyone know about the backdoor. Including legal representation.
The bill was meant to be amended but no one will touch it, its radioactive.
It inspired the UK NZ and Canada to similar arrangements from memory.
Yes corporations making a buck off your user data is bad but I am much more afraid of what government can do with it.
Gee... Those who trade privacy for security will get neither (and deserve none?)
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487... (page 12)