[afnog] A comment about backup plans

[sm+afrinic at elandsys.com]

Dear Amin,

I came across your exchange on a community list in the southern 
african region about "contingency planning".  I went to ask Chatgpt 
about it.  The reply I got said that the term is also known as a 
backup plan.  If I understood your exchange correctly, it said that 
there was a proposal to relocate the RIR in 2020-2021.  Some time 
back, I heard someone arguing that an unknown group(s) could take 
over the RIR's services.  Would anyone view that as credible information?

Let's assume someone created a back-up plan.  A plan may look good on 
paper but it could fail because of poor execution.  It is bit like 
those data back-up plans which don't work when you try to get back 
your data after a system crash.

A few days ago, there was a claim: 
https://www.elandsys.com/r/19093  I ignored it as there is someone 
else who oversees such things.  Someone posted a video explaining how 
such an "attack" was done.  It is something of a classic (from a 
scientific perspective).  I would look for a technical report which 
could prove or disprove whether the claim was accurate.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy