From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
> But what does not happen is the police actively protecting subsea cables, because that is private property and not

> their focus. The police may be called in to support protection of a cable or prosecution for its damage, but only after

> the cable owner has engaged them on a case-by-case basis, depending on the threat and/or impact. And since it is

> private property (whereas the police's time is compensated for by tax payers), you can imagine how often that

> happens.

My opinion is that as an industry we need to engage via bodies like ISPA and others with government to declare landing stations, submarine cables and data centres as national keypoints under the relevant Act.   That provides the ability to call in the military, escalating it to being more than a police matter.

Most energy producing and fuel processing plants have that designation even though its private property.  Many keypoint buildings are private property.   Heck, even the police does not own its own building.   The Internet going dark has a dramatic and negative economic impact and should be provided the same coverage.