[Starlink] data sovereignty

[Spencer Sevilla]

For what it’s worth, space is usually defined as either 50 miles (80km) or 62 miles (100 km) depending on the agency in question. I couldn’t find specific resources on how high a country’s “airspace” goes, but I do believe that “space" is considered international territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law

Spencer

> On Nov 5, 2021, at 08:00, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> A number of Canadian IXs have pondered whether we could get Starlink to peer
> via air.    I don't think this will be possible until they move to IPv6
> so that they can do some geographic allocation of end-station addresses.
> 
> A question that was asked was: what is the altitude at which the data has
> left the country...   Heinlein's _Man Who Sold the Moon_ is not true.
> Countries have a limited altitude in which to claim soveignty.  But, what is
> it?  (Would Alphabet Loon be within it? I suspect so)
> 
> Will this argument about data sovereignty be used by national governments (or
> rather, the associated incumbent telco-ISPs) to forbid spending public money
> on Starlink?
> 
> 
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