On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
On 30 Oct 2013, at 10:48, Jim Reid wrote:
> That said, it would be worthwhile for this WG to try to develop something that explains the advantag es and disadvantages of various approaches to traffic/content blocking: eg DNS tricks, various forms of blacklisting, DPI, etc, etc. There are laws and regulations on this topic popping up all over the RIPE service region and IMO it would be good if we could produce a document for legislators, law enforcement, IPR lawyers, etc.
Absolutely. That's the kind of thing I had in mind, and felt it didn't need spelling out.
Some of the work has been done by the French colleagues. This WG should take advantage of that.
If you do that, one should also look at the "SSAC Advisory on Impacts of Content Blocking via the Domain Name System", SAC056 <http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-056-en.pdf>.
jaap
Also, the IAB's draft "Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking and Filtering" covers DNS-based as well as other types of filtering. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-filtering-considerations-04>