This is indeed. Politics has an annoying tendency to cause technical problems, the current one being how to protect the DNS from political attack.
There's nothing new about this - TLS became ubiquitous because of the Snowden leaks. Nobody said "get this TLS talk off my list because it's political" That's why I'm asking if there's something similar people can do to secure DNS? Probably not at the moment and certainly not easily? Although since it isn't about routing I'm not fully sure it's on-topic for NANOG and might be better suited for somewhere like IETF? Kevin On 19 July 2026 18:05:29 CEST, Jay Acuna via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 8:08 AM Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Appropriate topics include: routing; broad-based engineering >> problems/issues/solutions; outages; performance measurement; evolving >> wide-area technologies; exchange points; traffic engineering; operational >> experience; ISP security; and trouble ticket systems." > >The technical issue would be susceptibility of All database to >tampering by any authorities >who hold legal supremacy/jurisdiction over whichever person(s) or >organizations are responsible for specific TLDs, >or even the actual org responsible for that registry, for any reason, >against the wishes of the domain holder. > >Even if the domain holder exists outside that jurisdiction or can >legally operate under different rules. > >While this can be a serious technical issue; I don't believe there is >anything network operators can do about it. >You could consider distributed alternatives such as IPNS of the IPFS >protocol a cryptographic-based name system, >Tor hidden services, etc. > >Your best option might be to register your own domains under multiple >ccTLDs while ensuring that there >is no overlap amongst the registry operators or registrars between any >of the chosen TLDs and domains. > > >> Andy Ringsmuth >-- >-JA >_______________________________________________ >NANOG mailing list >https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LZL2ZERUH5FDFUM2ML7R53QRIM46Y3UZ/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VL4QKNMCOV4MQIPRQHJOSA43Y6GWSVL4/
