Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a 'Know Your Customer' regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of "foreign malicious actors." Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won't be able to avoid the proposal's requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others.

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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 41 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This will never fly. Asking ISPs to verify identity is not a thing anyone is capable of doing. I've worked for hosting companies for the last 20 years.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's hope not, this sounds absolutely atrocious. Privacy rights are in such a sad state.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

I can totally just see my company moving all overseas or regional cloud operations migrating to some awful Equinix DC.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

If a law were passed, infrastructure would materialize. Our freedoms cannot depend on the idea no one will step up to make money solving these "problems."

[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Unless your ISP is running a cloud service, it wouldn’t be their problem. AWS, Azure, Google etc would be the ones hit with stronger identification requirements.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about residential ISPs.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Which ISPs. Also have hosting.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

So don’t all ISPs know their customers. Usually they provide service to your place of residence or work.