[119071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Thu Nov 5 19:59:50 2009
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4AF3716B.1040000@bennett.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:58:51 -0500
To: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
> I think the idea is for the government to create an official
> blacklist of the offending sites, and for ISPs to consult it before
> routing a packet to the fraud site. The common implementation would
> be an ACL on the ISPs border router. The Congress doesn't yet
> understand the distinction between ISPs and transit providers, of
> course, and typically says that proposed ISP regulations (including
> the net neutrality regulations) apply only to consumer-facing
> service providers.
>
> If this measure passes, you can expect expansion of blocking
> mandates for rogue sites of other kinds, such as kiddie porn and
> DMCA scofflaws.
>
>
It's worth looking at hhttp://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/ -- a
Federal court struck down a law requiring web site blocking because of
child pornography.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
