Jim, Niall & all - On 30.10.2013 11:48, Jim Reid wrote:
On 30 Oct 2013, at 10:27, Niall O'Reilly <Niall.oReilly@ucd.ie> wrote:
I think it deserves to be outside the DNS technical community and certain parts of the wider French Internet community.
Indeed. However I'm unsure if this WG is the place for that as it probably won't reach that wider French(?) Internet community. Or those who are responsible for making regulations and laws in this area. The OP on bind-users had a Belgian email address BTW.
That said, it would be worthwhile for this WG to try to develop something that explains the advantages 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.
one indeed can only wonder why such approaches that do *NOT* solve the underlying problmes keep popping up ever again. And why even worse these approaches are still turned into binding regulation and/or legislation despite their effectlessness. It's like fighting poverty by putting up foldings screens around the homeless: out of sight, problem solved. We have had the same discussion in Germany inlcuding a law that the new coalition (after the 2009 federal elections) asked for it not to be applied before the law got finally cancelled in December 2011. *) In particular eco, Germany's ISP association, fought it heavily for obvious reasons. I'd assume that the arguments brought forward three years ago are still very vaild and could form a basis for the suggested document. Best, -C. *) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz