Hi Hans Petter,
Today we responded to a request from the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Matters of National Security, Defense and Intelligence to discuss measures to protect Internet number resources in Ukraine. We have published this on our website: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-response-to-co...
As we note in our response, we will be presenting on this topic in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group at RIPE 85 next week. We encourage anyone with an interest in this topic to join that session.
In your response you refer them to the Address Policy Working Group ("On the same day, from 09:00-11:30 UTC+2, the Address Policy Working Group will meet to discuss matters of policy, and we suggest that this would be a good forum to raise these matters.”). I am not sure I agree with that. I think the current situation requires something like a transfer lock that LIRs can voluntarily activate. I remember already talking about that with NCC staff at the Berlin meeting, so the issue was known and a possible solution discussed a long time ago. To be honest I expected that the NCC had long since implemented something like this as an operational procedure. I do not consider something like that a matter for policy. The address policies stay exactly the same, only the operational procedures should change. My personal feeling is that the NCC is taking much too long here, sending the poor ISPs in Ukraine into a lengthy process of having to write a policy that will take even longer to implement, for something that is an operational matter, not a policy one. I urge you to solve this inside the NCC as soon as possible. You do not need this community to write policy on how to protect the RIPE database’s contents from clear and present operational dangers. I’m sure there will be many in this community scrutinising whatever you come up with, and there will be much debate on whether the solution the NCC implemented contains bike sheds in all the right colours, and I guess that is unavoidable in a bottom-up community. But a fast response (which IMHO should have been done months ago) is more important than perfection right now. Please go for “good enough for now” first. Thank you Sander