RIPE meetings: IP addresses as spoils of war
It was always a bit confusing how RIPE got around the Crimea switchover in 2014. They must have found a way to reallocate the system over to Russian companies as Ukranian ISPs no longer serve the region, but how they managed to do so without officially acknowledging Russian sovereignty  is a mystery. Especially since they keep extensive paperwork.<p>I asked about it on SE, <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/64179/does-acceptance-of-communication-with-identifying-characteristics-originating-fr" rel="nofollow">https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/64179/does-acceptanc...</a>, and there doesn't seem to be a way that this could have been legally accomplished without at the least rescinding recognition of Ukranian sovereignty over Crimea.<p>Which would imply, since all UN countries recognize RIPE NCC as the final and exclusive authority on internet allocation matters in the European region, that the world has stopped recognizing Crimea as Ukrainian, via one degree of separation.