The global internet is under threat as the conflict in Ukraine continues.
Many of the rules of global business have been torn up following the Russian invasion of Ukraine - will the internet be next?
Now there are questions about whether the conflict may not just alter the world's geography, but fundamentally change the nature of the global internet.Recently Russian ISPs have been asked to test a Russian version of the net Digital privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation was one of several organisations to support the decision.
The Great Firewall of China, as it is known, is perhaps the most obvious example of how a country can create its own web. In that test, Russian ISPs were asked to effectively configure the internet within their borders as if it were a giant intranet - a private network of websites that don't speak to the outside world.
Prof Woodward sees it more as another test of preparedness: "This was more about Russia calling on ISPs to get ready, to make local copies of the DNS - the phone book of the internet - and to have local versions of third-party software that comes from servers outside Russia, such as Javascript."
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