Ho appena terminato di leggere questo articolo:
=> "The Dangers of Moving Key Internet Governance Functions to
Amazon’s Cloud: The Case of the Netherlands" - di Corinne
Cath e Bert
Huber - Tech Policy press
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-dangers-of-moving-key-internet-governance-functions-to-amazons-cloud-the-case-of-the-netherlands/
Lo trovo eccellente perché, con un taglio decisamente non-tecnico, riesce ad affrontare le criticità indotte dalla tendenza (...stra-diffusa nel nostro Paese) di affidare servizi "critici" a soggetti USA.
Nel merito, l'articolo discute di una recente decisione di una entita' olandese (SIDN) di affidare la propria infrastruttura ad AWS.
L'equivalente di SIDN [1], nel nostro paese, è l'Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR di Pisa [2]. Entrambi hanno un ruolo *FONDAMENTALE* per il corretto funzionamento di Internet nel proprio paese.
Entrambi hanno la responsabilità (soprattutto "tecnica") di fare in modo che quando un qualunque browser in giro per il mondo voglia accedere ad un sito "<qualcosa>.it"... a tale browser venga risposto con l'indirizzo IP del server che offre quel sito
Detto in altri termini: se l'IIT spegnesse il suo registro, entro
un tempo ragionevolmente breve (al piu', una giornata...), non
sarebbe piu' possibile "risolvere" nessun dominio .it (niente
"senato.it", niente "governo.it", niente "poliziadistato.it"....
niente "unimi.it".... *NIENTE*).
Idem per SIDN ed il suo ".nl".
Gli autori dell'articolo hanno subito inquadrato i problemi potenzialmente derivanti dall'esternalizzazione di questo servizio (certamente "critico", per un Paese) ad un soggetto radicato negli USA e... hanno alzato la mano.
Nell'articolo, inoltre, si abbracciano lateralmente anche altri temi. Riporto alcuni stralci:
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[...]
The case is interesting for a broader tech policy audience, as it
speaks to a key trend—whereby critical services run by governments
are moved to big US cloud behemoths, with little thought about the
potentially harmful long-term consequences
[...]
Why this move to AWS by the Dutch registry and why now? The chief
technology officer of SIDN claims, based on externally outsourced
advice, that no European cloud company can provide the required
services. The advisory report on which he bases these claims is
not public. If SIDN's claims are true, it suggests that European
cloud companies are unable to deliver a relatively simple computer
system. This is an absurd assumption, given the independent
management of Internet domains by SIDN counterparts in other
European countries, such as France (.FR) and Germany (.DE). These
countries and markets are significantly larger than the
Netherlands, a small country with only 18 million residents and 6
million registered domain names.
[...]
SIDN is also correct in noting that the organization is following
a broader trend. European businesses are rapidly outsourcing the
management of digital systems to US firms. By loudly claiming that
it is no longer possible to find cloud providers in Europe, SIDN
is accelerating this problematic trend further. The well-known
dangers to political independence that citizens expect from an
organization classified under Dutch law as a 'provider of
essential services', seem to be disregarded. If even the Dutch
Internet domain registry, which describes
itself on its website as 'an expert in what we do and fully
independent,' chooses to outsource key services to Amazon, then
who is still independent? This gives everyone a license to
outsource all their technology.
[...]
And since everything is outsourced, SIDN will struggle to rebuild
or rehost their services should this be needed. To
be good with technology requires actually doing technology.
We must openly question SIDN's commercial ambitions, especially if
it comes at the expense of retaining control over its core
capabilities and critical services.
[...]
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In ogni caso, suggerisco la lettura integrale.
Bye,
DV
[1] https://www.sidn.nl/en/theme/about-sidn#who-we-are
[2] https://www.nic.it/it/il-mondo-del-it/chi-siamo
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Damiano Verzulli
e-mail: damiano@verzulli.it
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to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not
here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008
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