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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

> I like this, but keep in mind, Egypt shut down their BGP routers for
> most of the country, and Libya is routing all traffic to a blackhole
> both have dial up access outside Libya and Egypt (and international
> calling has yet been affected) so this might work for www.google.com.eg
> if it just routes to a European or Israeli server instead.
> for any service that exists entirely inside an affected area, we'll have
> select sites DNS going, pointing at what may as well be nonexistent
> addresses.
Yeah there's not much we can do against physical connectivity, but at least from 
a software standpoint, we could make the tools ready and available to help out.
> One thought due to those concerns, perhaps create a new TLD .ICANN? and
> have every change under that, doesn't exactly fix all the issues, but
> complex problems tend to make KISS impossible.
I was actually thinking of generating something under icann.glue, to mirror the 
functionality of our existing opennic.glue zone.  I'm still a little fuzzy on 
the exact details of effecting the switch between a government-hijacked zone and 
the real zone, but I'm sure we can figure out something.