> 2) Shut down the root nameservers inside Russia. That would make connectivity spotty for many users inside Russia, but mostly regular folks, not government or military users.
That’s just not true. Shutting down root nameservers inside Russia would not make anyones connection spotty in any meaningful way.
How would that even work? It’s not like sending root NS queries abroad is a big deal, especially since most people will be using ISP nameservers and have those replies cached anyway.
Also
> In the short-term, this is a bad plan because it would cut the Russian man-on-the-street off from international news and perspectives, leaving them with only what the Russian government chooses to tell them. That's not a great way to decrease Russian public support for the war.
This wouldn’t be a consequence of any of the things you listed. International news don’t live on .ru TLD, they don’t depend on domestic root nameservers or Russian IP allocations either.
> 2) Shut down the root nameservers inside Russia. That would make connectivity spotty for many users inside Russia, but mostly regular folks, not government or military users.
That’s just not true. Shutting down root nameservers inside Russia would not make anyones connection spotty in any meaningful way.
How would that even work? It’s not like sending root NS queries abroad is a big deal, especially since most people will be using ISP nameservers and have those replies cached anyway.
Also
> In the short-term, this is a bad plan because it would cut the Russian man-on-the-street off from international news and perspectives, leaving them with only what the Russian government chooses to tell them. That's not a great way to decrease Russian public support for the war.
This wouldn’t be a consequence of any of the things you listed. International news don’t live on .ru TLD, they don’t depend on domestic root nameservers or Russian IP allocations either.