Russian government has plans to cut off their internet from the rest of the world

[SideshowBob]

Originally Posted by verbovet

US controls a big part of the Internet infrastructure. It's not only about things like DNS, many Russian sites use the US infrastructure, for example Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure, DO, etc. Government wants to understand the dependence and be prepared to a moment when all these will be cut.

And they can't do that without cutting-off the whole of Russia? And the best time to do it is before any significant mitigations are in place?

It sounds more like a pretext than a reason.

[verbovet]

Originally Posted by SideshowBob

And they can't do that without cutting-off the whole of Russia?

I don't know, US will try to do what politicians decide, if any. This new law that we discuss is about surviving Russian Internet without any foreign infrastructure (when needed). There is no law on self-cutting :-)

BTW, this law as well as the previous law on keeping personal data inside country are very stimulating for internet business, especially hosting, so it is also positive for mail hosting. Yandex recently started a cloud, Mail.ru did this a year ago.

Originally Posted by SideshowBob

And the best time to do it is before any significant mitigations are in place?

Sometimes, being in philosophical mood, people in Russia ask themselves rhetorically, why Americans didn't finish us off in 90s when it was easy? ;-)