>Most EU businesses rely on a few public DNS resolvers operated by non-EU entities. If one of these resolver services is disrupted, it becomes much harder for EU authorities to deal with possible malicious cyberattacks and major geopolitical and technical incidents.
>This is why the Commission encourages EU companies, Internet Service Providers and browser vendors to diversify their dependence on DNS resolution services. To assist them further, the Commission will support the development of a public European DNS resolver service.
>‘DNS4EU’ will offer an alternative, European service for accessing the global Internet. It will be transparent, conform to the latest security, data protection and privacy by design and by default standards and rules, and form part of the European Industrial Alliance for Data and Cloud.
I mean, the argument is sound, and adding another redundancy to such critical infrastructure is nice as well. It’s not like you can be forced to use a specific DNS either, so if the fears of blocking come true, you can just not use it. (Hell, I’d be surprised if most ISPs will switch anyway.)
Plus, you know, using the infrastructure to aid in enforcing the laws insofar as it is compatible with privacy and security concerns seems inherently reasonable, and we do the same thing off the web every day, more or less.
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I really don’t see how this can go wrong… /s
>Most EU businesses rely on a few public DNS resolvers operated by non-EU entities. If one of these resolver services is disrupted, it becomes much harder for EU authorities to deal with possible malicious cyberattacks and major geopolitical and technical incidents.
>This is why the Commission encourages EU companies, Internet Service Providers and browser vendors to diversify their dependence on DNS resolution services. To assist them further, the Commission will support the development of a public European DNS resolver service.
>‘DNS4EU’ will offer an alternative, European service for accessing the global Internet. It will be transparent, conform to the latest security, data protection and privacy by design and by default standards and rules, and form part of the European Industrial Alliance for Data and Cloud.
[Source](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/eu-cybersecurity-strategy-digital-decade-questions-and-answers)
I mean, the argument is sound, and adding another redundancy to such critical infrastructure is nice as well. It’s not like you can be forced to use a specific DNS either, so if the fears of blocking come true, you can just not use it. (Hell, I’d be surprised if most ISPs will switch anyway.)
Plus, you know, using the infrastructure to aid in enforcing the laws insofar as it is compatible with privacy and security concerns seems inherently reasonable, and we do the same thing off the web every day, more or less.