[taukanda]

I'm an outsider (not a contributor or related to parties in the suspected "political" origins, and had not created an HN account until now) but it was pretty easy to find the reason behind the change. Scroll down and there's the unanimous decision to block Russian access from registry due to sanctions.

https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/817#issuecomment-2...

https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/TSC_SUMMARY.m...

> Sanctions Russia vs registry access > > Add note to README during PR documenting this discussion in TSC_SUMMARY > Block Russian IP Blocks from accessing our registry in Cloudflare > > Decision > Vote: unanimous yes

Now if you want to blow this out of proportion you certainly can. Turn on the conspiracy tap of "trying to slid this in under the cover of darkness" but the fact of the matter is the Technical Steering Committee decided on something and acted on it, as their role grants them the power to do so. Anything else is just assumption.

[wertik12]

The main question is not about IPs, but about cloud providers configs. See more details here: https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824

[taukanda]

Not a lawyer, but isn't this under the same guidelines as decided by the TSC? no Russian use or access?

Again heavy emphasis on "TSC" as the role.